I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.

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.

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

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.

What you can do, has nothing to do with your parents' last name! What you can do has nothing to do with the colour of your skin! What you can do is fully determined by God! It’s simple!

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Not all of me shall die.

I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if it's seen for long enough in the right places.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.