In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

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.

Was the sky always this shade of magenta?

I say to my sister, "I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it." "Why would I do that stuff without you?" "Because you could.""Well, you were wrong.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known, " but, of course, you couldn't have known.

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that's a strong character, the stronger the person is.

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

I don't tend to get girls as fans. I just get all the young guys and weirdos.