The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

There is no such thing as weak competition

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

The first step of handling anything is gaining the ability to face it.

Make money. Make more money. Make others produce so as to make money... However you get them in or why, just do it.

I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality.

Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language.

I always feel great when I don't have clothes on.

God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.