I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!

You are never more like Christ than when you love, pray for & serve your family.

I don't think Bruce Willis can compete with me. I have a much better voice.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

It's in our interest to continue with the Paris Agreement and to deal with climate change as the real threat it actually is.

There's lots of people - this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.