Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

We write the history of our time.

Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

We must accept our pain Change what we can and laugh at the rest

Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.