Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa's Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.