You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

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

The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for the few and ignore the masses. … I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with as many different individual ideas about the given piece with no final meaning attached. The viewer creates the reality, the meaning, the conception of the piece. I am merely a middleman trying to bring ideas together.

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.