Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

- Paul Kane

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot aro…

- Paul Kane

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world…

- Paul Kane

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or th…

- Paul Kane

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you…

- Paul Kane

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a v…

- Paul Kane

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

- Paul Kane

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just …

- Paul Kane

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

- Paul Kane