I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Violence is avoided, when we sit down with others, and discuss issues, and work together for solutions.

Tom . . . is Christ among us?' 'Yes.' Where? Why do I not see him? Why does he not come to me?' 'Because you did not love, ' Neville said, hating the fact that he had to say it.

Friends will change saddest moments into happiest moments in life

Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

No one said it would be easy But no one said it'd be this hard