Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

I don't paint, I hit.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Your career and your passion don't always match up.

We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

I just don't like to go out and deal with the real world. It's scary.

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

No music + Bad TV = Bad mood & no pages.

I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.

The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free.

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.