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.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

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.

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.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

Art is for everybody.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.