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.

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.

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.

Dalam aku senang berkawan, aku suka bersendirian. Diam dari jauh memerhatikan, siapa kawan, siapa sebenarnya lawan.

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back."-Plato

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

All things are possible, only believe.

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.