The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

the star that I was wishingthe light that I was kissingsitting back and reminiscing that night, it was missing.

Dare to dream.Dare to hope. Dare to live.

Two Homeless People In Love Are Happier Than A lonely Man Living Alone In His Castle

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

I wanted to contribute to the landscape tradition in art. By now I guess we are comfortable with the thought that man has been everywhere or affected everything in nature.

I remember one game I got five hits and stole five bases, but none of it was written down because they didn't bring the scorebook to the game that day.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.