All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

I know history. There are many names in historybut none of them are ours.

I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, change the outcome.

What a world it is, Cora thought, that makes a living prison into your only haven. Was she out of bondage or in its web: how to describe the status of a runaway?

Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*