I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

I get my highs from using my eyes.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand, ' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz did their best Donald Trump impersonation. All three unleashing an unprecedented string of insults and attacks fit more for a barroom than a presidential debate stage.

I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right.

As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!

Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers." "You were looking through my trash?

As friends go it is less important to live.

The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.