A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

Nakajima's presence didn't put any pressure on me, either. Quite the opposite: there was a warmth in the core of my chest when he was around.

God does not pay at the end of every day, but in the end He pays.

To speak another language is to have another soul

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

There is nothing nicer than playing someone who is cooler, tougher, more virtuous and sexier than yourself and thinking, 'I can be anyone.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

Be the mirror in which people admire their true potential.