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

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

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Tush! These are trifles and mere old wives' tales.

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.

When I speak of tantric yoga, I'm speaking of a type of yoga that is best practiced by persons who live in society. It's a yoga for the last yuga.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

In contests of strategy it is bad to be led about by the enemy. You must always be able to lead the enemy about.

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

In Washington, compromise has become a dirty word.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.