“A doctor once told me that with crying you aren’t sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don’t cry: you scream, you try to run. When it’s over and you’re OK, that’s when you cry.”

Live your Art. Don’t think about it.

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity… but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it.

People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks.

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

Everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead – how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

It only takes a second for an impression to become a vision.

For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it. That’s a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional – a space for individual contemplation and reflection. I want my art to be useful.

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open.

In the mid- to late ’60s to the mid-’70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made.

Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.

I don’t believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We’re always borrowing.

The electronic image is not fixed to any material base and, like our DNA, it has become a code that can circulate to any container that will hold it, defying death as it travels at the speed of light.

I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

I’m aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don’t email saying, “When are we doing next film?” I’m excited to see.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

First of all, when you have a doctor who cut the leg to prevent the patient from the gangrene if you have to, we don’t call butcher ; you call him a doctor, and thank you for saving the lives.

…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.