Whatever Power There Is In The Urban

...combining The Concrete And The Universal Is At The Center Of What Makes Art Important.

Part Of The Difficulty In Trying To Be Both An Artist And A Businessperson Is This: You Make A Picture Because You Have Seen Something Beyond Price; Then You Are To Turn And Assign To Your Record Of It A Cash Value. If The Selling Is Not Necessarily A Contradiction Of The Truth In The Picture, It Is So Close To Being A Contradiction—and The Truth Is Always In Shades Of Gray-that You Are Worn Down By The Threat.

Only When You Can Understand Yourself As All Pervading Consciousness Can You Possibly Understand That All The Universe Is An Emanation Of Your Mind. Everything That You See Comes Out Of You.

The Only Freedom We've Got Is Not To React To Anything, But To Turn Within And Know The Truth.

The Experience Of Life That You And I Have Is Pretty Much A Jigsaw Puzzle In The Box: Day-to-day Experiences Of Disconnected Pieces That Don't Seem To Justify The Efforts We Make Each Day.