I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

Desire to dwell in a clean environment.

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I like to combine different aspects in my work, to cover different areas, but I do see them as being separate.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

Look for companies with high profit margins.