If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

Superstition has its practical uses.

I admit to spending a fortune on women, booze and gambling... the rest I spend foolishly.

Everybody could have their own body scanned and just order clothes that fit perfectly.

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.