The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

I'm not a life, I'm a death.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."

如果你热爱你的工作，你每天都会出去尽你所能做到最好，很快你周围的每个人都会从你那里感受到激情——就像发烧一样。