If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that i...
As a child, I had no idea that I would end up in the film industry. My ambitions changed from wanting to join the army like my grandfather to taking up merchant navy as a career to running for India, and finally, investment banking while I was a stud...
I think I was probably looking for gay role models when I was younger, before I even knew or thought I was gay. I didn't really make the connection that they were gay, but I felt drawn to them because they were going against the grain, and I knew the...
Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they were) who’d been married for many, many years. Asked for the secret of their long partnership, they said: I can’t think of a better model for marria...
If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is supposedly rooted. God's grief is founded in His love for Himself and His love for us. Looking at God as our model is healthy. Facing the pain means ho...
I am short, so even if there are things that I like, or like on other people, I have to be aware that sometimes that won't work on me because I'm not 5'10. It has to have a shape for my body; otherwise, I look like I am two inches tall. I have to wea...
Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, ...
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my wel...
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also nice to remind people about that ethnic mix. I would like to see more black models and women from different ethnic backgrounds, but I also think that when...
[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.
It’s not as easy as it looks to come back from the dead.
The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.
I’m busy trying not to look like anything edible.
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
So if there is a government grant offered for anything, like starting a business or going to school, they cannot discriminate because of your age.
I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.
I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.
A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
