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 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'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.

You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.

If you understood him, it would not be God.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.

Man is rotten with perfection.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring.

Take it and be thankful.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

I like being a writer.