I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

I remember everything I know even the most superficial things. And what comes out is in my canvases.

I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

In imagination, there's no limitation.

Figure out what to do, then take a nap.

I used to go to the US Open on my birthdays and sit in the nosebleeds.

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them.

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.