As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

Everything about her always seemed to dance. Her lips as she spoke, her eyes as she laughed, even her hands as she made the cup of coffee I just ordered.

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don't always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I'm traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

I think it's great to use fashion to develop your personality and express who you really are.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses.