I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.

The painter makes real to others his innermost feelings about all that he cares for. A secret becomes known to everyone who views the picture through the intensity with which it is felt.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

The single greatest impediment to error prevention in the medical industry is that we punish people for making mistakes.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

We are the future

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression.

Imma kill it I promise this, I know you mad.

Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.