I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.

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.

Help others to fulfill their dreams and you will fulfill yours.

Art is anything you can get lost in. A place to escape and a place to find yourself.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

I'm with him, and he's with me, and that's the way it's meant to eternally be.

I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’

Hey, wait a minute, I was a Spice Girl once!

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.