As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

You have to learn it all, then forget it and start again like a child. This is the inner evolution.

Through play, we renew contact with childhood – My art is childlike.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.

I don't paint, I hit.

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago.

You only live once, right?""Not true, " Quinn said, "you live every day. You only die once.

All wealth is the product of labor

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.

I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh fabulous jacket', and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath'.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.