No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.

Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.

Selling is not a static activity.

Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not being true to oneself.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

I'm for mechanical art. When I took up silk screening, it was to more fully exploit the preconceived image through the commercial techniques of multiple reproduction.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.