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

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

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.

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.

It is hard to do a film that wants to say something because, unfortunately, most everything has been said.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.