Never Let Anyone Define What You Are

Losing My Father At A Tender Age Was Extremely Important In Being Able To Accept What Happened To Me Later When I Became A Quadriplegic.

In Life You Can Be Dealt A Winning Hand Of Cards And You Can Find A Way To Lose, And You Can Be Dealt A Losing Hand And Find A Way To Win. True In Art And True In Life: You Pretty Much Make Your Own Destiny. If You Are By Nature An Optimistic Person, Which I Am, That Puts You In A Better Position To Be Lucky In Life.

In My Art, I Deconstruct And Then I Reconstruct, So Visual Perception Is One Of My Primary Interests.

I Can't Always Reach The Image In My Mind... Almost Never, In Fact... So That The Abstract Image I Create Is Not Quite There, But It Gets To The Point Where I Can Leave It.

Of All The Artists Who Emerged In The '80s, I Think Perhaps Cindy Sherman Is The Most Important.