There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

We should know who they are, " I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X.

I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

I've got to see the Brexit process through. We've won the war but we must win the peace.