Finishing is torture... There's always some newly seen flaw. But the little glimpses of beauty between the anxiety make it worth it.

The over-reliance on photography holds so many artists back.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

I love painting still lifes because there's a feeling of musical, flowing experience. The drawing doesn't matter as much - what you're really after is a feeling of clarity and beauty.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

Neferet, you're nuttier than squirrel turds.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.