It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist while still achieving milestones and outcomes as required by certain funders and policy-makers.

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.