We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

There is always room in my life for a unicorn.(i.e. fantasy)

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.

The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.

Generally, I have to be able to get the lines out of my mouth without making a mistake before I go to sleep.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.