There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.

The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me.

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Getting to the playoffs is more important than winning an award.

You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.

The better a work environment is, the better it is for the employer - not just the employee.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.

Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!

Usually my 'a-ha' moments are when I'm not trying to think of how to solve a particular problem.