The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.

I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

Is passion what we are? Is that what we are in pictures? Is what we are in pictures almost real? Maybe it's become the most real thing.

The subject comes first, the medium second.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."

A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

I didn't like hovering above myself and looking back, or going through a door and thinking, How many times did I just go through that door? How do I get back? You know, that's not for me.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.

Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.

The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

When I was a kid, they'd say, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" kids would go Wonder Woman, an astronaut. Do you know what I always said? World domination - so we're on our way.