We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is legal.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it.