When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.

The more we know about how we lost our spontaneous wonder and creativity, the more we can find ways to get them back.

Oil rich boys . . . had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever.