If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

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.

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.

You were born to unlock your consciousness and be universal and infinite.

If you wait until the next upgrade, you will never upgrade.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger-prints on the road to achievement. .

If we all told what we know of one another there would not be four friends in the world

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

I am filled with humidity.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.

All love's pleasure shall not match its woe.