We are the living devils.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
When it becomes serious, you have to lie.
It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.
I watched as that kid died. In his last few seconds there was pure terror in his eyes. You can't do that. You can't do that to a person. I don't care what anybody tells me, I don't care how many people go crazy and die, I don't care if the whole shuck human race ends. Even if that was the only thing that had to happen to find the cure, I'd still be against it.