What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.

If you can't paint, paint Big.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Art is a protest against death.

Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If Jesus ist not enough, you´ve lost.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.

I'm a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.