My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

I try to think and design in color.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'.” - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

I've never been the sexy or the cute girl.

We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.