Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.

I learned that I have to work hard every day, that I can't get down if I get in a slump.

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

Like the oxytocin you get as a mom makes you forget everything constantly. And I'm a totally different person after having a kid.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.

I think a lot of things could be handled locally.

Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.

Oh, Lord, you have indeed been gracious to me.