We've spent the last 30 years focusing on the T in IT, and we'll spend the next 30 years focusing on the I.
To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that theyre complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better to know that they can rise above that and make something great.
That's what it's all about - making art is making something live forever. Human beings especially - we can't hold on to them in any way. Painting and art is a way of holding onto things and making things go on through time.
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.
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.
People whistle me because I am good-looking, rich and a great footballer. They are jealous of me.
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?