You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

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.

I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad.

I think if it's interesting, it's interesting, and if it's not, it's not working.

What is important is the future. After 40 years of creation, I continue. This is what I love.

Coldplay I really like a lot. David Grey, I'm obsessed with.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.

You, too, be courageous! The world needs convinced and fearless witnesses. It is not enough to discuss, it is necessary to act!

May we know You more clearly, love You more dearly, and follow You more nearly, day by day.

Just have a Coke or something and watch the boys go past.