There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

Till the time you realize your conquest you already reach that stage when you start losing the grip.

I had never owned a pair of jeans, and I didn't plan on it. I'm not a cowboy, a farmer, or a 1950s greaser.

This so-called tolerance, which, in my opinion, is nothing but a huge indifference.

As I am humbled by my difficulties, so I am strengthened by God's grace.

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.

Oliver Stone. Is that not enough?