“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”

“These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.”

“Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.”

“Where thou art, that is home.”

“I cry out for order and find it only in art.”

“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”

“For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.”

“Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”