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.

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

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.

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

The thing is that where I want to go isn't necessarily tied to what's going on there politically, but I think Vietnam is a really beautiful country. I think Thailand is also really beautiful.

You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

With a lot of people you think you want to work with, you reach out to them about working and then realize you don't want to anymore because they're a complete dickhead.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

The person portrayed and the portrait are two entirely different things.