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.

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.

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.

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

The most amazing thing that makes life worth living is your love.

Where military service begins, logic ends.

I have more care to staythan will to go.

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

All patriarchal societies are either preparing for war, at war, or recovering from war.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

Fun is just another word for learning.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.