I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

In leadership, life and all things it’s far wiser to judge people by their deeds than their speech - their track record rather than their talk” – Rasheed Ogunlaru

How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe?

A moment in time has multiple moments.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

It's not sipping wine. It's a mourning wine. You drain it. Like this.

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.