The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

I work every day. I work all day. I've never had a holiday. It's all I really want to do. It's what I'm here for. . . . More and more, I'm just so grateful I was born an artist.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood.

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn't be free.

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

Successful programs consist of people working hard, working together, while never worrying about who gets the credit.

I don't care if 1 is prime or not, if 2 is prime or not, if 3 is prime or not. All I care is that there are more stars in the heavens than primes in the earth.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

I will still carry on changing all the time.

Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.

Live just because or live your life for a cause

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.