A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Money and art are far apart.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.