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

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

I try to think and design in color.

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 to conceive a painting in real scale and in color.

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 with age, and he didn't want to look that way.

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

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