He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
I work from fatigue to fatigue at my age there's only so much daylight left.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed. My fundamental purpose is to interpret the typical American. I am a story teller.
I paint life as I would like it to be.
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
If a picture wasn't going very well I'd put a puppy dog in it, always a mongrel, you know, never one of the full bred puppies. And then I'd put a bandage on its foot. . . I liked it when I did it, but now I'm sick of it.
All places are places of worship to a Christian.
I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected. ' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.