I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The laws are made to be broken, ... if nobody will break them why they are made???

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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

The growth of The Body Shop is testimony to the fact that you don't need to waste money on costly advertising campaigns to be successful. Instead, we've always relied on word of mouth and stories.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

the lives we lead are determined, for better and worse, by our loss experiences.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?