I build a painting by putting little marks together-some look like hot dogs, some like doughnuts.

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.

Failure and disillusionment are realities, but ideologies are made of dreams. And dreams, it would seem, do not fade easily.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.