A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The writers are so smart, I can only imagine. I would love to be in that room. I love the creative process.

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.

I look forward to the challenge, but most importantly, I look forward to the opportunity to do what hasn't been done that often, in a sense. Michael Jordan obviously has done it, but that's it.

Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?