Every Child Should Have A Chance To

Art Saved My Life In Two Ways. It Made Me Feel Special, Because I Could Do Things My Friends Couldn't, But It Also Gave Me A Way To Demonstrate To My Teacher That, Despite The Fact That I Couldn't Write A Paper Or Do Math, I Was Paying Attention.

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.

Inspiration Is For Amateurs. The Rest Of Us Just Show Up And Get To Work. If You Wait Around For The Clouds To Part And A Bolt Of Lightning To Strike You In The Brain, You Are Not Going To Make An Awful Lot Of Work. All The Best Ideas Come Out Of The Process; They Come Out Of The Work Itself.

I Only Have So Much Time And Energy And Money, And I'm Going To Put It Into My Work.

I Wanted To Translate From One Flat Surface To Another.in Fact, My Learning Disabilities Controlled A Lot Of Things. I Don't Recognize Faces, So I'm Sure It's What Drove Me To Portraits In The First Place.