The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.

I began to discriminate between fear and excitement. The two, though very close, are completely different. Fear is negative excitement, choking your imagination. Real excitement produces an energy that overcomes apprehension and makes you want to close in on your goal.

In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.