Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

Train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence.

Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile.

You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt.

Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.