Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

If there's a narrative, I want it in the flesh.

I like making work in my studio day in and day out, but I'm not so interested in the business side

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

People you associate with or choose to deal with are the most important people who will shape your destiny.

If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

A man of limited desire will always have less or perhaps nothing to worry and sensibly no fear of losing anything or everything in life.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

There is no more important issue than restoring the protection of the law to pre-natal infants.

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

The Saint finds her true reason for living in unconditional love and in her ability to give without asking anything in return.

It is beautiful to be alone, it is also beautiful to to be in love, to be with people. And they are complementary, not contradictory.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.