I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

Sometimes the people we love make us hate some other people we love.

To be whole, we need to embrace bothintuition and logic.

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

[I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

For real company and friendship, there is nothing outside the animal kingdom that is comparable to a river.

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.