It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Some sitters don't engage with the process of having their portrait painted at all. They'll think it's a good opportunity to catch up with all their phone calls.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It is intensely frustrating to be misquoted.

I'm not some kind of machine that paints pictures.

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of sorts and then contradict it.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure.

A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

The Christian’s journey through life isn’t a sprint but a marathon.

There was a young lady of NigerWho smiled as she rode on a tiger

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.

Take the gentle path.

She spotted a lone dandelion,and it crossed her mind that a younger Luce would have pounced on it and then made a wish and blown. But this Luce's wishes felt too heavy for something so light.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.