I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

Where Do You Show Up to Share What You Have to Offer?When You Love What You Do-You Share It Daily

The older we get, the more we become ourselves.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

I’m with you

I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.

Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.