Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.

We do not see everything in the environment in the complete, totally resolved, explicit character of the photograph. We, in fact, prioritize our seeing.

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.

Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.

The world is not interested in titles and positions, all it wants is your creative mind and the genuinity of the work of your hands.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

You have to stop in order to change direction.

people are all there is to an organization

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

I like to wear platform heels onstage and they're actually hard to find. But fans started putting money in them - so now they are filled with tons of bills. It's pretty amazing.

I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that.