Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

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.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

There is no room for Donald Sterling in our league - there is no room for him.

Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

There are no victims in the universe, only creators. The Masters who have walked this planet all knew this.

The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.

Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there