The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

The art of lighting the stage consists of putting light where you want it and taking it away from where you don't want it.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

We all must serve the Lord in whatsoever capacity He has called us to serve

Step One: Grab Mattie. Step Two: Run. It wasn't much of a plan. But what it lacked in potential it made up for in simplicity.

A journey of a thousand mile begins with a SMiLE

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.

It's about being here in the moment, accepting one another and allowing creativity to flow.