The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

I'm more eclectic.Maybe I'm minimalist in the respect that I love black...black for the winter, white for the summer, you know? But I love artisanal things.

Live life to the fullest everyday, 'cause we never know what day will be our last.

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.