Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

The truth about true love is that it is endless.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

I think it's just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the rising sun!

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

I'm not trying to become the demon I'm fighting against

You know what they say: 'Why sit at a table that doesn't have key lime pie on it if you don't have to?'