You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Art is the soul of a people.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?