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I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I have continued to paint; my father - who was savaged by the critics - continued to paint until practically the last week of his life.

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

Art is forever.