From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

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.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you'd do that spontaneously.

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Pride - Lord of human kind

All mathematics is tautology.

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

Today's smart marketers don't sell products; they sell benefit packages. They don't sell purchase value only; they sell use value.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.