After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed thinking, Hmmm, maybe I ought to pray. They always say there are no atheists in a foxhole... and I thought, Here I am in a pretty good-sized foxhole... and I thought Naahhh. I wouldn't respect any God who would listen to me after I'd rejected him so vociferously.
I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There's also an unbelievably high proportion of artists who are left-handed, and a high correlation between left-handedness and learning disabilities.
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
I only use three primaries, so the nice thing is I can't have favorite colors.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.
I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.
I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
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