Paintings can make you cry and it's just **colored dirt**.

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.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

Everybody says I am NOBODY, and you know NOBODY is Perfect.

The truth is often found in humour.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

Now more people are doing work that requires individual decision-making and problem-solving, and we need an educational system that will help develop those skills.

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.