If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the way you experience life.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the artist is not fully conscious of.

There was an expression of intensity in dance that was so compelling to me that I wanted a piece of that action.

A good film is always nourishing. It's not about it being hopeful or bleak; it's about how it touches you, how it moves or stirs you.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

You are almost never cool to your children.

I didn't know," he said. "I didn't know you needed me." Her voice shook. "I always need you

So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.

The transformation from body identification to spirit identification is the purpose of our lives.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.