My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.

I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

His voice had a faint trace of an accent she couldn't place - one that made her pretty sure he was no local kid infected the night before.

Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

The greatest source of inspiration for me has been my wife; she is the love of my life, my best friend, and my most ardent supporter.

I know how to turn the bad into good always.