To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in.

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

When you sit for an hour and a half in front of somebody, he or she shows about twenty faces. And so it's this crazy chase of, Which face? Which one is the one?

There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.

When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living.

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

I can choose to be happy, or choose to be miserable every day - waiting until I die.

The solution of the social problem is in liberty.

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.