I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

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 must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, its joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

You will come home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.