I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

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.

For me it has always been easier here, where only the fundamentals count, to learn what every man must learn in this world.""And that, my lord?""Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.

Craft the story now so you'll be proud to tell it later.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

She isn't here, but aroundhere, in a deep raindisappearing.

I think I did a great job and a great service not only for the country, but even for the president [Barack Obama], in getting him to produce his birth certificate.

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.