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It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can.

As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

Sometimes I like to draw.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.