If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions

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.

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

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

That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society.

I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Until my ONE thing is done, everything else is a distraction.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.