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.

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.

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

I hate beyond hate.

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.

Vengeance is sweet.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

Teach us by your lives.

I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.