I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.