"I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen … that if painters did know what…"

"I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show them…"

"My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the co…"

"When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. Ther…"

"I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior e…"

"URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"Give me love and contentment that I may proclaim thy glory, Lord of earth; give me health with competence, a pious he…"

"More rich, more noble I will ever hold The Muse's laurel, than a crown of gold."

"I willingly accept Cassandra's fate, To speak the truth, although believ'd too late."