You are here to experience life, not to escape from it..

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings..

Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simpl….

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same tim….

Live constructively and live optimistically..

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting..

There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover ….

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all..

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language..

A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist..

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

I've been through a lot as far as love..

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..

Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong..

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried..

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody..

Someone else's success is not your failure..

I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it..

We all see only that which we are trained to see..