Some people criticize me for using sources that are a bit low brow (this quote is from 'Gladiator') but you know what? 'I'm just going to use that hostility to make me stronger, not weaker' as Kelly Rowland said on the X Factor.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I just wanna make the world a better-looking place. If you don't like it, you can paint over it!

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.