Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.

Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.