Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.

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.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

I take a breath when I have to.

A story about my life would be utterly dull.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

Home for me is wherever my wife and kid are.