All art is made from anger.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.

Art that imposes conditions - human or otherwise - on the receiver for its appreciation in my eyes constitutes aesthetic fascism.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know.

I stopped painting, not because I didn't like painting; the sensuality of it was fun. But I wasn't able to get to the point I wanted to.

You can't have a $2 million painting unless it's on the wall somewhere and somebody saw it.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

Artists try to ask questions, and within our society, unless there are artists, those questions don't get asked. And everybody blames the market.

The true friend . . . knows that you need him in that very moment –not tomorrow, not next week. By next week you may happy, or you may be dead.

There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people

Making and Working on my Beliefs.

When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could.

What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

If you stay in a house and you go to the bathroom and there is no toilet paper, you can always slide down the banisters. Don't tell me you haven't done it.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.