I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

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 a master of yourself.

Need I say more?''No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Go sit down and look pale.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.