When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

This seems to be happening more and more, the dreams from the past blurring into reality and sadly, I preferred to be in the dream world rather than reality.

Brastias. My friend.” Uh-oh, this couldn’t be good. “Do you lie to me?”“Uh . . . no.”“See? That’s a lie!

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.