I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

A good painting has to do about 12 things at once.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.

Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.

Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.

If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.

You need a plan for yourself, just like you need a plan for a business.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

I hate trying to play charming. Thinking about being charming is really tough.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

If you are ever going to lie, you go to jail for the lie rather than the crime. So believe me, don't ever lie.

You'll never be great at anything you're not passionate about.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.