But artistically, my art I kept very separate from my political beliefs, deliberately and very, very rarely would I allow that kind of thing into it.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

I made it greater, you always told me to forget the haters.

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!

A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and leaving something of himself upon it.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary