The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

Color is a language. It is the language of painting. How painting expresses itself is in large part with color.

I have learned from nature that all is equal... all is equal and in balance. I see everything as fitting together.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

I like the idea of the painting looking at the viewer than the other way around.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Painting is the subject of painting.

The older I get, the more I feel that color is what painting is. Painting is primarily color.

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me

Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation.

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

I think when I say universal, it means making a project that everybody can enjoy but also a project where they're getting closer to you.