I went to England in the '70s and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest a potential of danger to you or your family or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Happiness is an attitude of mind born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding but also approached art emotionally.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it's simply necessary to love.

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life which must be understood before they may be guided.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.