Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding ... the invisible in the visible.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

It is in midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines... a curious transfusion of courage.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.