Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

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.

It was only in the middle—between the immense and the minute—that sadness seemed to exist.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

I think [Newt] Gingrich who's been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.

Honesty is better than any policy.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.

The excitement of anticipation was *almost* equal to the thrill of lovemaking.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

Spread your love wherever you go.

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.