So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.

I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.

If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

Love is just love it can not be expressed in just 3 words

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal.

I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.

Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

You only get one shot at a second chance.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.