Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

Selling is not a static activity.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

I am a war president.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

Europe has become the first line of defense for the United States. It has become a training ground for terrorists.