My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.

They said we are different. but I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins!

I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.

There’s no such thing as a wrong note.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.

You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.