Women really like the horses, more so than men.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

A man came to Budha and said, "I want happiness". Budha replied" Remove 'I", its your ego, Remove "want" its you source of misery, Now you are left with "happiness".

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values.

The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer

Learn from your failures & go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

What is nobler, " she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or difficulty?

Electric clocks reveal to you Precisely when your fuses blew.

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

Some think that they will exercise power for the general good, but that is what all those with power have believed. Power is evil in itself, regardless of who exercises it.