A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.

Love is an inspiration. It moves you. It motivates you. It keeps you going.

I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.

Work is its own best earthly meed, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.