I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

Please. Forgive me. One more chance, Blaire. I want this. I want you.

Unfortunately, power is something that women abjure once they perceive the great difference between the lives possible to men and to women...

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.

Acting was just outside of the realm of possibility for me. I grew up in L.A. and around Hollywood but I literally never, honestly, considered it.

Come here often?' I asked instead, humoring no one but myself. So it was totally worth it.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).