I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.