Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
The job of art is to turn time into things.
There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the miracle of insecurity.
The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.
Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.
It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.
I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.