Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Art is for everybody.

I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving.

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

The more they drink the more they thirst.

Team guts always beat individual greatness.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.

The Taj Mahal appears like a perfect pearl on an azure ground. The effect is such I have never experienced from any work of art.