Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit.

Karma is an energy debt which you owe or an energy credit which is owed you. Both involve compound interest that is added to the equation making it either a burden or a blessing.

Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

Persistence and love of one's work is the key.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.

I work without commercial considerations.

Through a process of trial and error and experimentation, I discovered the simplest method - using only black - produced work with the strongest visual impact installed.

Suffering teaches joy.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Unfortunately, people think I'm negative and bitter all the time, and that's not the case.

If I made an album just to sell you a story about how I'm the man, it really doesn't show any human side to me. It's good to talk about what's real and what's relevant.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.