It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

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.

Only the people who are working the victory by faith will experience the joy of harvest

And when it comes, her kiss is like something not so much felt as found.

I love to stalk. I love to stalk you real, real good. I took your name home after our date and we had the best Google session of my life.

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'

It is only serving God that is doing immortal work; it is only living for Christ that is living at all.

Find out what people want and help them get it.

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.