Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.

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

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

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.