The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

I have been over into the future, and it works.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.

It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

At heart, of course, a story itself is consolation's instrument.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.