My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

Develop a conscience to live by.

Beauty and youth. What a dazzling combination. To bewilder and to sparkle. Days filled with sunshine. And men worshiping at her feet. Love was a game she played with wantonness and mischief.-Fabulous

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live.

But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let's park our minds in God's truth.

The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no wars, in no way, fashion or form, that take the lives of other humans.

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.