There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

I get my highs from using my eyes.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

As long as hope is alive happiness will be there.

Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

We've done exactly what we've wanted. We never compromised to anyone and still managed to have a successful thing. I don't take that lightly. Yeah, we're really lucky to have had that.

I appreciate having been promoted for merit, on merit. And then bringing to bear whatever those extra special characteristics that all of us have.

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.