So time doesn't count, and place does?' I said this to tease her. When I was a man, I liked teasing her and she went along with it, consenting, for it reminded us both of a sadness that had passed.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.