Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces, I find them strong and contemporary.

I'm always worried about the sitters - are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable?

I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

I'm interested in the landscape of the face, the way in which light and shadow fall across the forms. That's really my subject matter.

As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.

Lend an ear to your inner voice and intuition

My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.

If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

Guys are so transparent most of the time. Unless, of course, they're dating you, in which case they are utter mysteries.