Painting is so much more than the materials.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Happiness isn’t some elusive treasure we chase after. It’s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old.

A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

We see this as a test of their ability to face reality.

Don’t accept any negative criticism and negative thoughts.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

Happiness isn’t about talking

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

No one can wipe away the injustices of centuries in only eight years.

the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.