I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

My passion comes from the heavens, not from earthly musings

White is poison to a picture: use it only in highlights.

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment.

Sir when their backsides look good enough to slap there's nothing more to do.

When I grow up, I'd like to be dangerous.

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

Holy Scripture is so exalted that there is no one in the world ... wise enough to understand it so fully that his intellect is not overcome by it. Nevertheless, man can stammer something about it.

Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.

The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Life is never free of contradictions

Success Comes from listening to your customer.

What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.

The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.