I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.
We interpret the world through stories. . . everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.
I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. . . . That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face. ' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.
To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things.
Yeah, I paint in my spare time, just to relax myself and wind down a bit.
When the other man has none, you don't need a gun.
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.