Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.

I don't know if I'm an impressionist or an expressionist. You can call me an American first... I've been labeled doing neimanism, so that's what it is, I guess.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

It has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few.

The most gratifying action plan that one can conceive is one that others deem unattainable only to be proven wrong.

There was all the world and his wife.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

If I was on an airplane, the people in coach would know who I am. But no one in first class would know.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

The bond between mother and baby is so interesting. Women have been giving birth since the beginning of time, but when it happens to you it feels like a miracle.

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.