If you're overwhelmed by the size of a problem, break it down into smaller pieces.

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.

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.

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.

If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

You are victors, not victims!

Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.