Amateurs look for inspiration the rest of us just get up and go to work.

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.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

Know that I love you immensely, and you hurry home.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

I would rather trust in the living God than in any other power on earth

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.