I wanted to show that an African-American artist could make it in this country on a national level in the graphic arts. I want to be a strong role mo….

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art….

Make it all about the work. Everything else will follow..

You can put anything into words, except your own life..

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but ….

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the art….

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on..

Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working..

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself..

When life sucks, throw yourself into art..

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed..

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted..

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference..

Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on s….

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science,….

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but musi….

Success is never deserved. Success is always earned..

To have what few have, do what few do..

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love..