Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.

When life comes to an end, we will take nothing with us.

Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.