History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

Without passion, there is no genius.

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it's because you have a spiritual problem.

Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home.

I do have a religion

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

I think fur looks better on an animal than on a human being. So I dress my dog in a mink teddy.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

Stop? I'm the guy. I don't stop! That's the woman's job. We're the gas, they're the brakes.

You cant please all the people all the time.

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.