Tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

Art is like beginning a sentence before you know its ending.

The seed of your next artwork lies embedded in the imperfections of your current piece.

Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.

Lesson for the day: vision is always ahead of execution - and it should be.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

I have a thing for things that last.

Don't trust something you don't understand !!

I like being full of mystery and wonder, people always know im up to something but never know exactly what.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

Great is not great to the greater.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."