Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

I hate beyond hate.

As long as you try to think intelligently, you have missed the point.

You are destiny for greatness. Arise and shine for the glory of God is upon you.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.

Your hair tends to get used to the product you use. Every month or so I change it out.

Whenever conflict arises among living creatures the sense of ownership is the cause.