My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day.

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence.

Limitless material growth is not sustainable or moral.

Man.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn’t hand them their car keys.

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.