Having a routine, knowing what to do, gives me a sense of freedom and keeps me from going crazy. It's calming.

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.

Wisdom is available free of charge, but one has to give away somethings to acquire it!

One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.He called it his second smile.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

I never fight, except against difficulties.

The internet is awesome and responsible for my success.

Girl Rising reminds us that educating the girls of today is an investment in everyone's tomorrow.

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

"not a scientific body capable of accurately assessing the facts about global warming".