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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life.

You should focus on those things that will lead you to succeed instead of wasting your time on trivial issues.

The biggest catch need not be grandest at all.

All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.

Do I think there's life after death? No, I think my books are my life after death.

God will never give you any problems that he thinks you can't solve.