Martin Sheen was extraordinary. He's a very gifted man.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.
When I went to college, and I went to art school, I started to realize that Warhol was cool and that pop art was fun.
A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.
Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.
I find I can't get rid of my trashiness as an artist. A lot of my themes in painting, to the extent that there are intentional themes, are meant to bring that conundrum into high relief.
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh. . . but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.
Some people say, the world can be so alive! It always is, you just do not know it because of the screen of your thinking. You notice it as you become more awake.
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.
We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.