Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

I don't paint, I hit.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

I feel blessed that I still have the little Dolly in my heart, I'm still the same girl that wants to squeeze every little drop out of life that I can.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

All night I have suffered; all night my flesh has trembled to bring forth its gift. The sweat of death is on my forehead; but it is not death, it is life!

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

They say blood is thicker than water. Only in certain cases, you need water to live. You learn that in the basics.