I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.

If you want a thing done go - if not send.

Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us a $1.61 a week in an increase in payroll tax.I think that's a great investment.

If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.