Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.