"I'm a disciplinarian, I don't condone gossip and I don't suffer fools easily."

"Mr Gorbachev – tear this wall down!"

"It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules."

"I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me."

"When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or …"

"… it may suggest whether a negative made by camera and lens is always an essential, or indeed if a negative…"

"A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone."