I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but everyone extends ideas and comes up with suggestions.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

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.

If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.