Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

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 will never know who you truly are until you can find a quiet place to sit and think. A place where you can get lost in hopes of finding yourself

Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful

Many a times a huge problem gets solved with a trivial move.

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

You might recognize me, I'm the fourth guy from the left on the evolutionary chart.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?