The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

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.

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

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.

The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don’t are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It’s our burden.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.