For the surface, I'm not interested in painterly convention. It's more interesting if it looks like it painted itself.

I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

The light in the North is constantly a thrill for me.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.

Going on the ship felt like 100 years or one day. Timeless. Beautiful vertigo. It will continue to show up in my work.

I paint bridges because they're in transition; you're coming or going, you're not anywhere - full of possibility.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

It is character that communicates most eloquently.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Bullshit, as you Americans say. He's Irish. The Irish say bullshit too.

There is nothing wrong with me. These are really sick people, sick that you can see.

The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.