“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”

Art is a leap into the dark.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life

Sex and art are the same thing.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.

Age only matters when one is aging.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one’s thoughts change.

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don’t say everything, but I paint everything.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.

On the road as an artist u start to crave the studio.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill.

I am not a businessman, I am an artist.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.