I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker.

What we believe and trust becomes the very ruler for our souls by the influence of powers which work either righteously or evilly

we become like that which we worship.

My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.

Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbour.

Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.