The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.

So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.

I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.

I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.

Don't you worry Roald Dahl, The 6-year old me loved you but the 16-year old me worships you.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

The only solution is love.

We are in control of the one asset that we all give the most f#%ks about, and that is time.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.