I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

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.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

The smith and his penny both are black.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?