The bottom line is in heaven!
I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.
I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.
I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.
When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.
I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard, Jack Vance.
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world. . . Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.