Nothing is important... so everything is important.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.