The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

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.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.

God is a great humorist. He just has a slow audience to work with.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.

Make education a continuing, never-ending process.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.