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

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 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.

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

Our society and institutions are built to push men and women into different roles. We need to change that.

I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.

Money may not be able to buy you love, but conflicts about it can certainly bankrupt your relationship.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.