If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

I try to think and design in color.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

The Lack of perseverance and effort isn't called Destiny !

Practice diligence, intelligence will follow you.

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.

Science is not just a topic we can step around or ignore.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!