The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

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.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Some women's arms are placed of exile

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.