My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.

The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies.

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.

A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.

The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values.

I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

Sometimes hard times teach us more.. In Learning Phase!!

Sometimes we think we have a great prosperity but then we suddenly encounter the storm.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

... everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds. [p. 110]

To me, bigger is better.

A man must know his destiny.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

You don't have to be afraid because we're all the same