It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver.

I like making movies.

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

When I look at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Fear can give you urgent wings.

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

If I heard there was a new show, and the creators were writing about how they met, I would be like, "Pass!"

If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will be increased.