I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

The most beautiful of all emblems is that of God whom Timaeus of Locris describes under the image of "A circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere."

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

If you are successful because of Hip Hop, which I am, then you have to recognize that Hip Hop is nothing if not a product of the street, therefore you have to give something back.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

The worst thing I can do is nothing.

We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.