Power & Society Sayings

I mean, I think it's a bit of a joke that people pay so much money for art. I think it's ridiculous.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

I like living, breathing better than working.

The unencumbered woman, alone in the landscape, is a very strong image.

I'm not a political person. I'm a painter.

The colonized underdeveloped man is a political creature in the most global sense of the term.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern society, just a barbaric one.

War is over if you want it.

The greatest misfortune of my life is that I was born into an age when I am so terribly misunderstood.

I adore art, but I adore it on its own account, and not for the sake of profit.

My brush is my sword, and my canvas is my battlefield.

I do not wish to be judged by what others have done, but by what I myself do.

Work! One only lives by working.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Gold is a symbol of divinity and eternity.

I'm not trying to make political art. I'm trying to make art that's about life.

I'm not a politician. I'm a musician. I play rock and roll.

I don't care about the money. I just want to be happy.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.