A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas.

Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple

Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it.

Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.

Charity is the entrance to the garden.

I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I could easily live in a world populated with disjunctive, bizarre things.

But it is curious how you can see that an idea is absolutely true and correct and yet not believe it deeply enough to act on it.

I'm always trying to see things from different peoples' perspectives, to understand why they love something.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.