We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.

If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses.

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision.

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry.

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern.

I try to think and design in color.

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

I'm drawing in my head pretty much.

I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.

Not many get to see this side of him. So, if you do, know that you’re lucky.

Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Because the way love works in general, you don't need everybody to like you somewhat - you need one person to like you a lot.

Love is the promise that guides me.

We white people think that we know everything.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.