We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!

I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all, I've never had a husband.

Learning without thought is labour lost.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

We all wish we had super powers. We all wish we could do more than we can do.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.