"If I paint a hammer and sickle..." - Quote by Pablo Picasso

“Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.”

“When I am told I am too old to do something, I try to do it right away.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.”

“I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.”

“It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.”

“All art is concerned with coming into being.”

“Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.”

“a good reader makes a good book”

“Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.”