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

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.

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.

I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Be bold, speak from your heart.

. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

Economists can be called the worldly philosophers for they sought to embrace in a scheme of philosophy the most worldly of man's activities-his drive for wealth.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.