Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

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.

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

I think there are still plenty of free-thinking creative people out there. There always will be.

My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

I love the man that [Peter Berg] is, the father that he is, and the leader. We push each other in a way. It's competitive.

I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.