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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Courage rides on the coattails of confidence.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would quote not this price, but another price higher or lower.

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear the business; Costis was still not sure what the king was doing.

A different word usually came to my mind when I thought of Yeva, though it did sound a lot like “witch.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.