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It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

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 is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.