I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

Art is a necessity - an essential part of our enlightenment process. We cannot, as a civilized society, regard ourselves as being enlightened without the arts.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others.

Abstraction and realism work best together.

Creative expression and visual comprehension are really the handmaidens of art. One cannot thrive without the other.

Art is completely subjective. It's up to the viewer to judge whether or not it has merit.

Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience.

time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

Before I had kids, I was out every night of the week.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

My pledge to myself is I will believe in my music, always. I stand behind everything I do. If I don't think it's amazing, how the hell is anyone else going to think it's amazing? But that's just me.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don’t inhale my own work.