My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.