Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

Never take the first brick out of the wall unless you know it is meant to fall

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINKSome people cowerand wince and shrink, owing to fear ofwhat people may think.There is one answerto worries like these:people may thinkwhat the devil they please.

The calming sea reaches out to me. Inviting me to its pure serenity."-Elizabeth's Quotes (inspired by a Pablo Neruda quote "I need the sea because it teaches me.")

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Every woman is a rebel.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.