When I create a masterpiece I feel alive! When my creation is revered I feel immortal.

God doesn't need me to believe in Him. Believing in myself satisfies him just as much.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.

Your abilities are not enough to fulfill your wishes, so work considering your wishes and not your abilities.

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.

The reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can never be the whole truth.

The climatic world is one world even if politically we are not.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.