I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

I fink I gots deaf on me willie.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.