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" Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs. "

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" As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. "

" I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really. "

" I've realized that I can do performances. "

" What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space. "

" I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture. "

" I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually. "

" Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world! "

" Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. "

" I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. "

" I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. "

" I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. "

" I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old. "

" Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there? "

" I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really. "

" Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny. "

" Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. "

" California is always in my mind. "

" Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that. "

" The moment rules over everything. "

" I'm fed up with being bossed around. "

" You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. "

" I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. "

" The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. "

" The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. "

" Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life. "

" Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they? "

" On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. "

" People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure. "