Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.

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.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

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 single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

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.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution.

Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.

Women need men like fish need bicycles.

Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable—more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

In every area of our lives we get back what we send out

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.