It's Fun, In A Way,

The Point Isn't To Know What You're Doing. The Point Is To Have An Experience Doing Something.

The Hardest Thing Is Remembering That You Have Some Complicity In The Things That Happen To You In Your Life.

I Told The Students [at Yale] We Were Going To Talk About Love - I Meant Love In The Sense Of Devotions To One's Work - And About Half The Students Got Really Pissed Off.

I Think That Sense Of Always Traveling Has Something To Do With Anonymity And Privacy And Pleasure In Having A Very Clear, Very Reductive Life.

You Start With A Generic Body, But I Think The First Wall You Hit With Portraiture Is Comprised Of History And Storytelling And The Nature Of Characters - Whether They Are Historical Or Coming From Literature Or Documentation. Those Are The References We Have To People, Besides Your Family, And The Intimacy Of Portraiture Is In The Specifics Of Individuals. For Me, It Came Out Of Doing Things About Animals.