I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

Every single line means something.

I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.

The more I paint the more I like everything.

Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.

Success is not only in the hand

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

No matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

If you have an effect that nobody can replicate, then your phenomenon fades away. So if you want to to have a legacy, then you jolly well better have an effect that replicates.

The heavens are full of floating mysteries.