If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

love everyone, trust a few and rely on nobody

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

The fun of getting dressed is it's a creative experience.

The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.