The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

I hate beyond hate.

My friends are my estate.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

The satisfaction that I get from doing what I do is not what I thought. I thought it would be that I'd feel like a star, I'd feel important. But I don't

Hipness is the only asset that matters.

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.