You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down.

You're perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you're small you think that about your parents. When you're old, you think that about your kids. You'll see.

Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

I get all tangled up in your ribbons.

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.