It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.

I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life.

I have lived in Cornwall from the age of 4, so I have always been aware of the artistic heritage that the county has. I feel very proud to be able to connect to this.

I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work.

The important thing isn't that your technically great, I think it's the power of your expression.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Speak with your own voice and be as unique as you possibly can.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag.

No matter what we have heard or read about a country, it is our own feeling that counts.

This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

Woman: You certainly know the way to a man's heart. Mae West: Funny, too, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!