It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

I'm interested in human vulnerability. We are alone, and my portraits reflect this quality. I don't want anything to get in the way of this feeling.

I have never painted as well as I thought I should, so frustration came early.

Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.

A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

I'm going to be 50 soon. I'm single, I'm looking for something meaningful. By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

It doesn't matter what you choose, what matters is the energy with which you choose it.

You must suggest to me reality---you can never show me reality.

I want to bulk up. I'm a skinny guy.

Say what you mean, be who you are, and hope for the best.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

I noticed things in my computer music that were getting old, and I started to figure out that this has to do with the way the listener interacts with music.