“In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.”

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

I do not seek. I find.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

I am an artist who’s just tryin’ to do something different, and basically not caring about everybody’s opinions and wanting to follow what everybody else is doing. At the same time, I know when to be serious, but I know when to joke.

I remember being backstage in my full look and the make-up artist said to me: ‘Did you hear? Kendall Jenner is here.’ ‘And I said, ‘She is? Oh my God!’

I’m not a Reggaeton artist and I’m not a Crunk artist either.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don’t worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

Social media is so powerful now, and with all these blog sites and YouTube channels and videos, it makes it more and more relevant to bridge artists together.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

At the end of the day, I don’t know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is another question.