I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

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.

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Let's all be more humble about the evidence behind medical advice but also respect the challenges to providing accessible lifestyle guidance.

Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

Encourage innocent amusement.

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.