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

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.

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

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.

Details" is the beauty of this life.

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

The word of God is that unto our souls, which our soul is unto our body.

God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!

I'm kinda doing a lot of stuff.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.