I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.

See the first stroke as a start and everything after that a recovery.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.

Appreciation and gratitude show your true wealth emotionally, spiritually and psychologically.

I always see the crack in the glass before I see the window.

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

The American Right has an amazing ability to lionize leaders whose lives are the precise antithesis of the political values that define their image.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Every championship, by definition, is historic.

They represent tomorrow's cigarette business. . . As this 14-24 age group matures, they will account for a key share of the total cigarette volume -- for at least the next 25 years.