I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't draw that much better than some of the other kids, but I cared more and I wanted it badly.

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.

My way is the way of silent revolution

Why do I wish for anything? I just end up wanting what I had before.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

You cannot merely expect culture to be a natural occurrence; it has to be taught and made a part of your everyday routine.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.