Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

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.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.