With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

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.

All history is modern history.

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wandered. As I read, I began to call them together again and, as it were, laid a bait for my soul

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

You don't get any points in life for doing things the hard way.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

When you think of a collaboration, you think about people being in the same space.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

I love being in a show. I love the community aspect of it. I like the discipline of it, too.

I'm just a foul-mouthed Brit.

Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.