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.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

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.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint... I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something... Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it... 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.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

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.