I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.

I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.