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.

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

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

Scarcity mentality measures out life by the ounce

True dreams are those which keep you awake at night and drive you nuts during the day.

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace.

We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

Isolationism is over.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?