You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

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.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.

You have got to own your days and live them each one of them every one of them or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.