Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

I get my highs from using my eyes.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

In yoga you reach your arms to the heavens and the universe smiles back at you.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.