More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

There is nothing wrongwith enjoying life’s luxuriesas long as your happinessisn’t contingent on them.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.

Integrity - Take the harder right over the easier wrong.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

To have a choice at all is to be privileged.