Realize that true happiness lies within you.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Hope is the anchor of the soul the stimulus to action and the incentive to achievement.

I like the feeling of being dominated

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I don't speak Italian, but I do speak Moschino.

Most people don't believe in themselves.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

Hello. I'm hello, and I'd like to say myself.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.