Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously I find that a very tedious attitude.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.