I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.

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.

When your dream turns into a nightmare, rise to the challenge and slaughter the dragons

Because I want to be remembered.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

I will wait for love to fly to me and teach me how to fly

I always hated my hair, so now it's going away.

You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

Whenever you're unsure of yourself, whenever you're in doubt, ask yourself three questions. What do you believe in? What do you hope for? but most important, ask yourself, what do you love?