Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.

I love helping people; just being of service makes me happy!

With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.

A letter is the portrait of the soul.

There are no coincidences.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.