The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.

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.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..

I think everyone shares a fear of failure-that you're only as good as your most recent collection.

And who will fight Ashur? Choose carefully, for I long for blood.

I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it.

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

I do all my interviews on the toilet.