All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

Inspiration is for amateurs.

Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

So time continued on slowly and painfully. Perhaps the old analogy of being a record stuck on repeat had become too dated

Life feels like fall of itself.”“'A dream within a dream.”“And I want to wake up.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

You didn't answer my question. Are you all right?" I didn't do anything" Yeah. You did." He looked at me. "You did a lot" -Chloe & Derek-

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!