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.

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.

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.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.

Own who you are and celebrate it.

Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.