Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

As we become the distant past, you become a future few of us would have imagined.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence and the other of meanness and vicious-ness and both of discontent.

Without art we live under the illusion that there is only time, and not eternity.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

I hope if there is another world, we will not be judged too harshly for the things we did wrong here—that we will at least be forgiven for the mistakes we made out of love.

I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English [because of The Mighty Boosh].

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.