Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

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.

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.

You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

I have changed as everyone changes: within a permanency.

Once upon a time, a girl lived in a sandcastle, making monsters to send through a hole in the sky.

Green is the fresh emblem of well founded hopes. In blue the spirit can wander, but in green it can rest.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

Karma is a medicine which is given for our own good. Karma is the law of compensation, not of vengeance.