The best reason to paint is that there is not reason to paint.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

If commercialization is putting my art on a shirt so that a kid who can't afford a $30,000 painting can buy one, then I'm all for it.

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.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

Everybody draws when they are little.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well.... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

The act of creation is a kind of ritual. The origins of art and human existence lie hidden in this mystery of creation. Human creativity reaffirms and mystifies the power of '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.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people...that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

When I die there is nobody to take my place.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

Nothing is important... so everything is important.

The public needs art -- and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.