Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

Whatever you don't completely reject outright is taken as acceptance by reality.

I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.

I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

Jericho." "Mac." "Thank you for saving my life. Again.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

I am interested in the size of your intention. It is better to overstate the important than to understate it.