The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

I don't want a be bird because birds get attacked too much. But it would be cool to fly.

Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

In the field of knowledge is all possibility.

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.

One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.