Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Why hadn't that been part of his stupid lifelong redemption program: Do what my wife asks immediately so she doesn't feel like a nag.

Never go to another woman about your woman. Not unless you want an insidious form of advice.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.

We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

Duty is God;Work is worship.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.