God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will s….

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying ….

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself..

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context o….

The myth stems from the belief that writing is some mystical process. That it's magical. That it abides by its own set of rules different from all ot….

My mom is a painter, so I've been doing drawings and paintings as early as I can remember. Then there was this gap where I was doing graffiti in high….

Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so sh….

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place..

My work is has always been very, very personal..

[My work] looks very cinematic because it's not abstract video art. It's sometimes very narrative and since I play with film grammar in my video work….

I won't be happy unless I finish Lyoto Machida..

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence….

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved..

I like to be the one in charge of everything..

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting..

Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional..

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce..

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing..

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one..

When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power..