What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

If you worry about how good the art is, you're never going to make your own art.

Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

Art should create an experience.

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

Connecting to something keeps our empathy alive.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

If I have to mourn for only ONE person, Then I choose EVERYONE.

When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

You know what nostalgia is, don't you? It's basically a matter of recalling the fun without reliving the pain.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

Whether it's simply some fierce animal joining of mates or a sublime merging of souls, she is mine, and I am hers.

It's so dense, every single image has so many things going on.