I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

If I am in that position, you will see change because I have experience change as a Christian.

You can't fail when it is not an option.

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone to succeed.

Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.

We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.