I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

The funny thing about money is that you can't take it with you, so don’t try to.

Instead, she's as stillas a leaf-littered pond, dark water evaporating, waiting desperately for rain.

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are