Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.

I have one aim, the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.

Things shape themselves before my eyes just as a I draw them.

I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician.

How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

I never fall in love because love is always inside me.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.