It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

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.

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.

I'm both an artist / filmmaker and a human rights defender.

A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.

One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.