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.

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!

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.

Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

The eyes speak that which cannot be voiced

The time has come for nations to sell their patriotism and buy wisdom.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.