I'm a woman in search on an adventure
That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.
I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked. . . to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.
Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings in real life; painting is more about the extreme moments when speech doesn't help anymore.
Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.
I never paint a portrait from a photograph, because a photograph doesn't give enough information about what the person feels.
Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws.
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: 'He is risen, indeed!'