I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I tried to learn the violin for a while.

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting.

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

You could always go on changing things but there comes a time when you have to decide to stop.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!

People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable.

Being with her is my survival

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.

Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

That is the trouble with flying: We always have to return to airports. Thank of how much fun flying would be if we didn't have to return to airports.

The IPCC - and all the mainstream media and environmental extremists who cite it uncritically - really have become a joke in the scientific community.

Governments resort to inflation with popular support because the people apparently are naïve enough to believe that they can have their cake and eat it, too.