Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

Sometimes I wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. I’d lie awake in bed, wondering, wishing, hoping that I’d close my eyes and then I just … wouldn’t open them ever again.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Music can really affect the intensity of a workout. I love having it during cardio especially.

America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.

I can buy and sell any of these people who are always criticizing me.