Ease Is The Enemy Of The Artist.

Every Idea Occurs While You Are Working. If You Are Sitting Around Waiting For Inspiration, You Could Sit There Forever.

Sometimes I Really Want To Paint Somebody And I Don't Get A Photograph That I Want To Work From.

I Don't Believe In Inspiration. Inspiration Is For Amateurs. Some Of The Time You Know You're Cooking, And The Rest Of The Time, You Just Do It.

After A Few Days In Hospital, I Was Thinking, Oh, Gee - I Raised In A Church, Protestant Upbringing Which I'd Rejected As An Adult - I'm Lying In Bed Thinking, Hmmm, Maybe I Ought To Pray. They Always Say There Are No Atheists In A Foxhole... And I Thought, Here I Am In A Pretty Good-sized Foxhole... And I Thought Naahhh. I Wouldn't Respect Any God Who Would Listen To Me After I'd Rejected Him So Vociferously.

I Love Sculpture, And Minimal Sculpture Is Really My Favorite Stuff, But I Wasn't Very Good At It, And I Don't Think In A Three-dimensional Way.