I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

You'd be surprised at how undemanding acting is.

I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque.

I've been doing it all along, ever since I got out of art school.

I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of peoples hopes and dreams to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E I E I O.

The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I think on civilian casualties they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that.

I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on whats wrong in your life or you can focus on whats right.

They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say "Why?", say "Why not?"

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Exoticism can give you an edge it makes people assume youre cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.

I grew up in an all-white community.

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.