My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

If you really want to annoy me, ask me when I'm going to retire from rock n' roll.

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

Satan doesn't mind you using your strengths, so long as you do it for personal benefits.