Art

“Je préfère qu'on me considère comme un artiste universel.”

“I don't like art that is too much intellect. I like it to speak to my heart, my reason.”

“I am never particularly interested in doing what I did the last time. I take one thing and work it out a number of ways.”

“The heart of it is drawing, starting where you don’t know quite what you’re doing and discovering what the drawing will be.”

“The studio is a sacred place that you come to do some bigger reflection and thinking.”

“I favour a direct style to convey messages that speak to everyone.”

“I do not believe that poverty is equal to degradation. For me, color restores people’s dignity.”

“The heart of it is drawing, starting where you don’t know quite what you’re doing and discovering what the drawing will be, rather than knowing the script in advance and following it.”

“If I had to explain what I do to someone, to myself if I was not an artist, I would say that I make kind of dreamscapes.”

“I started taking self-portraits simply to use up spare film.”

“My work can represent links in the evolving narrative of memory and identity.”

“For me, it’s like the same way you’re going to say Nas is an R&B singer because he’s from America or Whitney Houston was a rapper because rap is the most popping thing now.”

“عابوا قريضي وما عابوا بمعرفةِ ولن ترى الشمسَ أبصارَ الخفافيشِ”

“Ich wollte am liebsten alles in einem Satz sagen, nicht in zwanzig.”

“Le beau est toujours bizarre.”

“I thought I’m going to make an album from Puerto Rico, for Puerto Ricans.”

“There’s something inherently cringe about writing fiction.”

“We're like a nation's kidney. We help everyone metabolize not just facts but feelings around facts or ideas. And jokes are just a shorthand for all of that.”

“You can’t buy swag. You can’t buy vision and you can’t buy aesthetic.”

“Я, гений Игорь-Северянин”