Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.

I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I love the discovery process in painting.

A community of people, that's the really what art school is.

One bit in or out of focus makes the difference between our bodies being ourselves and our being part of a group. I want to melt the idea of specificity and blend individuality into the crowd.

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Protect your garden. Some come as weeds disguised as flowers.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.

God wants us to live consistently, He wants us to enjoy every single day of our lives.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.