Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

I hate beyond hate.

Whatever God gives you enjoy!

Be patient with yourself

Those who are men in God’s eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality

The world would be a sadder place without stories.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

When something is over, it is over.

Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.