One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

To add to truth distracts from it.

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

The only thing worth conquering, is our own fears.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

I came up from a difficult background.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

I definitely do feel a pull toward people and places that are far from my own life.

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.