I just paint to fulfill an urge. When I don't have the urge, I just don't paint. This is not some stupid contest. But if it is, I feel like the winner that came in last.

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

Faith is the physical description of God. That's what He is. It's the only word we have in our language to accurately describe His physical form.

What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

The journey as a writer is not so much about our stories, but the stories of others we meet along the way on our wonderful path. #grateful

Most of us are “living the dream” living, that is, the dream we once had for ourselves.

That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.