Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

I get my highs from using my eyes.

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction - show anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human body as whole and relatively healthy.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

How we feel about those we give our business to is of vital importance.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

A writer's journey may be tough, but never give up and enjoy every moment.

My focus is to not focus too much on one genre.

Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein; Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

We can achieve much more in peace than we can ever achieve in these needless, unconstitutional, undeclared wars.

I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.