The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Painting to me is constant searching. I can see what I want, but I can't get there, and yet you have to be open enough that if it goes another way, then let it go that way.

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the discipline.

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

It’s always the ones we’re not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.

There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

No offense, but I'd rather kiss the horse.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything

Social media is the basis of my career. Since I was a kid I've always used the Internet as a space to express myself creatively.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

Religion implies revelation.