I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

- Alex Colville

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

- Alex Colville

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

- Alex Colville

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are inna…

- Alex Colville

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

- Alex Colville

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

- Alex Colville

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

- Alex Colville

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

- Alex Colville