The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

We do not need to use our own strength to fulfill the will of God

Awake my great soul.

Avoid the mindless chaos that pervades vast swathes of society.

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.