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.

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.

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

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

I don't paint, I hit.

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.

Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

They most the world enjoy who least admire.

Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

People always covet what they themselves do not possess.