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

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

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.

Don't just Hurry, don't just Haste. Don't just Worry, don't just Waste. Life is a Treasure, Enjoy the Pleasure.- RVM

all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody's reach. A place beyond the flow of time.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

I admired her choices though I wouldn't have made them.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

The beginning is half of the whole.