The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

I will follow anyone... And tell everyone...How grateful I am...To the Western nations.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.

One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.