Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive.
The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Everybody draws when they are little.
Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
The dripping. . . well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.
I didnt start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didnt know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.
Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
Twitter has allowed the conversation to broaden and become more inclusive. At times, the conversation is really tense but that's because we're talking about really important issues. It's not going to be easy but at least the conversations are happening.
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.