Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

The dead do not hurt you

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Trust is a good business practice.

Respect is and not given, respect is earned.

You have to make your wedding day all about you.

That's how we like to play basketball, is be physical down there in the paint and force teams to the perimeter.

A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.

Being a high school teacher was wonderful, but unsustainable: I needed a way out.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.