There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

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.

And you find that sometimes you search to fill a void that doesn’t exist until you venture out far enough to create it.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.