Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

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.

Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the bondage of injustice.

Some dreams, some poems, some musical phrases, some pictures, wake feelings such as one never had before, new in colour and form—spiritual sensations, as it were, hitherto unproved

The supremacy of cerebral, manipulative thinking goes together with an atrophy of emotional life.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

The older pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub. He doesn't try to do it all himself.

Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.

Take these words home and think it through; Or the next rhyme I write might be about you.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.