I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it.

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.

Be enthusiastic about your life.

Almost lost you, " he thought, surprised to find himself blinking back tears. "Been through too much, me and you. We're going to finish this thing together.

The pursuit of the perfect then is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

If you surround yourself with people who are trying to build, who are all willing to build other people up, they build you up!

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

I do probably 80 or 90 per cent of the cooking at home.

You can go out and hate everybody, hate your age, and hate all the things you don't have but it will show; you have the face you deserve.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

What I wanted to do [in Allied] was get two characters who fall in love for real, across the barricade, and then it transcends the war.