All art stems from an irrepressible urge to share emotion. The best artists have lived; and, in that living, endured profound heartache and blissful joy.

One of the benefits of being an artist is being very observant.

For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

It should be the ambition of every true artist to transform wounds and traumas into masterpieces.

Artists are haunted souls.

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.