Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

In order to survive in a world of instinct, its' alternative is to hunt or being hunted.Reject this, then be prepared to be hunted.

Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?

Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Somebody should clip Sting around the head and tell him to stop using that ridiculous Jamaican accent.

Don't read to remember; read to realize.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

I remember music first artists second.