If you find yourself with a weakness, attack it... don't develop a technique that avoids your weaknesses..

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern..

There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll j….

If you really want to seriously think about life, and therefore take painting very seriously... and take seriously the joys that it can bring to one,….

If I am using a sable, it may start off as an eight or seven, but it's a double aught by the time I'm done. I hate brights... they have no use. You m….

If you can see it, and if you know your color, you can paint it..

Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint..

We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop ….

So really what I am trying to do is create and understand form. But then too, color enters into it because a lot of things are color changes without ….

I almost never do drawings, because I have found over the years that doing something in one medium and translating into another doesn't work. I like ….

Dramatic use of color, harmonious design, the interplay of light and shadow across a variety of textures, the portrayal of the figure and other subje….

We got interested in aesthetics, and then at the end of all of it we fell off the precipice. It's almost like crawling back because so many technique….

It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision..

I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical….

Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with..

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton..

I'm drawing in my head pretty much..

Realism has to be such high quality, you can't fake it. It's all hanging out there like the laundry..

I try to think and design in color..