''In my youth I made a New Year's resolution that I will never make New Year's resolutions ... so far so good.''

''People in the rainforest were not 'poor' until the 21st century caught up with them.''

''Art that questions can transcend social, religious and political boundaries.''  

''I have come to the conclusion that my sculpture is made up of 5% subconscious 10% will power and 85% physical ... the process of the elimination of my soul.''  

''An average of 45% of my time is now spent in hospitals that I am likely to pick up some foreign disease without having to leave the country.''

''I believe it's not possible that mankind will stop making wars but 100% believe in that wars will finish mankind.''

''In the time of making of my sculptures I always find the reason for my being.''

''Don't put a limit on what you expect to get out of life.'' 

''The heart that will forgive can never be broken.''

''If you have felt you have lived your life to the best of your capabilities the dying part should be easy.''

''If you are fighting monsters in your head try not to become one.''

''Today I have nothing to say.''

''It's the decision that is given less thought that changes your life for ever.''

''I have a safe refuge where I can go from the miseries of life ... it's my art, a refuge where I can forget and in time hope to find what's best for my humanity.''

''Everybody, at some time wishes that tomorrow will be a better day ... but you could die.''  

''No doubt there is a definitive loneliness in being the artist but I try to take the 'poor-me' out of it and turn it around as 'self-imposed-solitude-that-goes-with-the-terrain' ... truthfully ... it takes a lot of bullshit to get it there.''

''Getting old is all about getting Messy with a capital 'M'.'' 

''There is one way in telling myself that I have no money worries ... by telling myself that if I live through today and spend no money I have no money worries.''

''When I am the artist I trust in my intuition and it has opened up my mind and when I am not the artist I trust in my intuition and it has opened doors ... which some would say should have stayed closed ... but I trust in my intuition.''  

''There is a real loneliness to life when you experience the feeling that something inside of you dies while you are still alive.'' 

''If there was all woman governments I would put what money I have on it that there would be little or no wars of any kind ... now that I think about it there was a Margaret Thatcher.'' 

''I try to look on life from the optimistic side of the fence but I'm realistic enough to know ... no cash no splash.''

''Emotions at the best of times are contagious.''

Hope is wishful thinking in the present in the 'hope' something happens in the future to change the present.'' 

''You need your fair share of insanity to be creative.''

''Any man will find his peace with a woman who will listen to him.''

''I personally would care less about each person's beliefs but to trick people into believing that there is a better life after this is nothing less than evil.'' 

''If you have peace in your home you will have peace outside of it.''

''Not everyone who works hard in their life has the success they deserve ... there is an element of luck that plays a big part in it.'' 

''Unhappiness, sadness, grief and why not, misery can be brought on by our circumstances in life but it's our state of mind that can find some meaning to it all to endure or overcome.''  

''Human beings have become the tools of their own inventions.'' 

''I am not in competition, nor ever was with other artists ... I regard myself as a symbolist artist where creativity plays the lead role and that alone puts me in competition on a daily basis with myself.''

''When making my art I like to think of myself as working outside of the 'box' but expecting 'Jack' to pop up.''

''Here's one of life's blatant message's ... In my youth I used to hear trains in the distance now I hear tugboats.''

''You can always stay young by lying about your age.''

''Memories of pain and joy go to the grave with you.''

 ''Born into a Christian family paved the way for me to become an A.A. ... Artist and an Atheist.'' 

''I told my parents when I was twelve that I wanted to be an artist, I didn't get the chance until I was twenty eight ... do not lose hope in your dreams.'  

''Human beings are capable of having the maximum of hatred for reasons soon forgotten.''  

''Success to life is making the best out of what you got and moving on.''

''What separates me from most other people I come into contact with is that ... I am a self-made man and I use my freewill ... It's called Ego with attitude ... or, spend your life working your arse off for others who have Ego and attitude.'' 

''In the making of my sculpture so-called 'mistakes' will happen and these I look forward to ... it's creativity that knows which ones to keep.''

''I have a funny relationship with religion ... I'm Atheist.''

''At this stage of my life I consider myself to be in post-traumatic growth.'' 

''Cliches are cliches because so often they are true ... tell me I am wrong.''

''The majority of people are with the person they are meant to be with and if a separation happens, that is also part of it.'' 

''If everybody was like me there would be nobody on the roads.''

''The Internet is a major distraction and yet I cannot do without.''

''Your mind might be trying to tell you something else but your emotions can't lie to you.''

''Every action and word spoken get's a result ... it's what is done with it depends on you.''

''You go through life you will encounter pain, but misery ... that's optional.'' 

''... and on the last day God said to man ... ''Transmitting configuration ... please wait'' 

... and that's where it all went wrong.''

''By 'charming' you will always get your answer without asking the question.''

''Solitude at the best of times is pleasant ... loneliness most of the time is pain.'' 

''If my work is not up to my expectations I have no problem in breaking it.''

''I will go through all of the emotions when I am making my sculpture.''

''Soul-mate or mortal enemy are the rigours of creativity ... and it all comes at a cost.''  

''We are all artists in one way or another because we are all born with that instinct to create.''

''In my art I can run away without leaving my studio.'' 

''Technology is now the way of life ... but are we.'' 

''Destiny will give you opportunities but Fate has already decided for you.''  

''If you are looking for a complete change then you accept the result in what destiny throws up at you, work with it till you have exhausted it and then go for that change again, in this way I believe destiny will always open doors to you.''

''I made myself a citizen of the world because I am Irish.''

''When you start having kids you will find yourself thinking and talking about world future.''

''Life is a one-way ticket.''

''When depression comes so should laughter.'' 

''Old age can bring regrets ... so do it now.'' 

''Even in routine everyday is a new day ... well, I like to think so.''

''Decide what you expect to accomplish and go for it all out.''

''Hurt eats away like rust.''

''There is a gullible side to all human beings.''

''It is always possible ... all it needs is to keep it positive.'' 

''When I doubt myself and lose the capability the world will gobble me up.''    

 ''Sometimes you need someone to tell you what you don't want to hear.''

''I would be afraid to take long breaks from my work in case I go to rust.''

''Information is a government's best weapon.'' 

''When I am making my art I am skipping along the yellow brick road.''

''Freedom is a deadly business.''

''It takes courage to show your art to someone else but it takes balls to dedicate your life to it.''

''My artistic life and my personal life are rolled into the one and have become the inevitable experience of one life.''  

''The nature of any government who wants to stay in power is not to have any guilt.''

''I look for sincerity in the world but can only find it in art.''

''If I can see it in my mind I stand a good chance of making it in 3D.''

''Just the mood ... and then you can judge the food.''

''Being positive is cliche but having the right attitude towards how you want to live your life is going to get you where you are suppose to be ... I know from experience.'' 

''I am wandering in the back streets of my brain picking up rubbish.'' 

''If you are depending on a 'god' to step-in and intervene because you asked you will be waiting till the time you will die ... but then, that will be 'his' intervention.''  

''When the fridge is empty I can see what's not in it.''

''Keep your goals in view but be flexible in how you reach them.''

''The only difference between a hole in the ground and a grave is that with the grave there is no getting out.''

''I cannot teach because I am still learning.''

''You have heard of the saying 'you can only be young once' ... it's true but not true ... you can be immature for the rest of your life.''  

''When I make my sculptures it's only then that I appreciate the moment I am in.''

''We don't see 'things' as they are, we see things the way we want them to be ... in other words ... deluding ourselves into 'comfort zones'.'' 

''The older I get the more focused I am but with less energy to run the mile.''

''By making my sculptures and working each day is a good enough reason for living for the next day.''

''Where did our humanity go ... it's not a question but a thought.''

''I have a good day when I don't fall out with myself.''

''Generally I think human beings, even in severe pain will refuse to die because of fear of the unknown.'' 

''The sculpture, like all of my artwork in transition of creativity is a fermenting progress of my thoughts brought to symbolism and finally into reality.''   

''You can go as far as your mind lets you.''

''I tried hard to be sociable but it takes too much energy out of me.'' 

''You cannot have regrets in life if you feel you are morally responsible for your actions.''

''When everything seems hopeless there is that chance it could all change in that minute.''

''I can experience more distress from my thoughts than what reality can throw up at me.'' 

''Happiness is short lived and can trick you into believing life is 'good'.''

''Religions die out ... but I will never be able to witness this in my life-time.''

''Creative people don't behave very well generally but I can sum my character up like this ... ego and insecurity combined.''  

''If I knew when I was going to die I could plan for the rest of my life.''

''I never think about the 'loneliness' when I am making my sculptures because I am fully focused on what I am doing that it's impossible to be lonely it's when I stop work that I know what loneliness is.'' 

''I can't make sculptures as I see, I make sculptures as I feel.''

''Happiness is a by-product of an emotion.''

''I can say there is moderation in excess when I can say to myself I want to sleep.''

''When I know I have finished working on a sculpture that's the starting point for another to begin.''

''If you hear someone who calls on 'god' as his witness you can assume he is a liar.''  

''All religions evolved out of fear, control, greed and fraud though with some compassion on the border of humor ... you can also take into account that man has no control on his imagination.''

''It's very easy today for an artist to be a copyist and much harder for the artist be original ... I stay away from museums.''  

''I try to live each day on the positive side of life ... it makes the sunsets special, the night air smell better and the beer taste good.'' 

''Everything as we know it is politics as we don't know it.''

''Anger and laughter are complete opposites, it's impossible to have both emotions together ... but you can choose one.''  

''Artistic temperament is the excuse for a 'mental-block'.'' 

''When you start to accept religion as fact you have given up your 'free will' as a human being.''

''There is a need for governments around the world to add to their cabinet a 'Minister of Grief' ... because we humans just cannot live as one.''  

''Don't cry for me after I am dead and gone to a new hell ... cry for me now in this one.''

''When in life you find yourself at a 'roadblock' take the detour, it might well be more fun.''

''If I don't make art it is not possible to be at peace with myself.''

''I believe that religion and art come from the same thinking and that is why I give myself 100% to my art.''

''It would be insensitive to talk about your 'happiness' to one less fortunate than yourself.''

''The more I lose myself in my art the better person I am.''

''Life is so 'compatible' ... if you have given up your destiny as a human being to explore all this world has to offer and take in the shit that has come from history handed down to you, that makes you a slave ... don't live history .. make the history ... and let the other poor fuckers [after you] worry about it.''

''The majority of people are not living to their own expectations of what life should be instead they are living to other peoples ideals.'' 

''Each person's burden is carried in it's own way.''

''I do not have the feeling of loneliness when I work ... it's when I stop working the 'shit hits the fan'.''

''The majority of people would consider themselves as religious or spiritual but few would call themselves humble.'' 

''In thought there is the possibility of reaching a 'perfect happiness' ... in reality 'perfect happiness' is loving yourself.'' 

''A positive attitude towards life can help to make your dreams a reality.''

''Put your trust in your 'gut-reaction' ... it's always right.''

''Life can be hard but more so if you are a fool in thinking it gets harder.''

''The down side of ageing is remembering your youth like it was yesterday.''

''If you are not willing to take risks in life then don't expect much change.''

''I just go from making one sculpture to the next everything else is pissing against the wind.''

''It's hard to see the positive side in the negative events that to stop struggling is to stop living.''

''As an artist, if I don't think outside of the box I'm in shit trouble with myself.''

''I have not found anything that can substitute for experience.''  

''Through out history and in our own time man has done terrible evil deeds feeling justified when it's coming from a religious conviction.''

''In old age, once you are over-the-hill you begin to pick up speed going down the hill ... with no brakes.''

''Respect for oneself comes from our morals respect for others derives from our ethics.'' 

''The cure for any addiction is to start another addiction.''

''To teach what is morality and wise in religion and then ask to go and kill your fellow man because of that same teaching ... something is very wrong.''  

''If you are in a relationship it's best to have a parachute strapped to your back at all times.'' 

''In today's world loneliness is the new cancer within society ... and then ... bang, some day you will die ... both you cannot run away from ... even in dying you will feel lonely.''

''Living in this age of technology has shown that World Wide Web gathers information faster than mankind can accomplish toleration and the wisdom that all can live in peace.''    

''A fanatic is one who cannot see himself from another point of view.''

''My shadow is my only friend.''

''Courage is what you experience when you have been through the tough times.''

''History can show that nothing is more common than artists with talent and no business sense.'' 

''My art is my personal journey through life brought into reality with the help of solitude where I can be with my inner voice.''

''We have had world wars ... why not a world orgy.'' 

''Here it is ... my 'Big Philosophy' for life ... live it lightly and let go lightly.''

''I am the outsider sitting on the edge ... but at least I have cleaner air.''

''Since the dawn of time human beings have died for unworthy causes out of fear, and most ... because they did not think for themselves.''

''I will continue to fight the injustice done to others that is so much taken for granted in our societies, though now I am getting physically tired ... but what I want now is to fight the injustice done to myself that needs to be fixed.''

''If I was to have the energy in old age I would live my life all over again instead of living with the memories.'' 

''I can be happy one moment and sad in the next which can only mean I am busy with living.''

''For the artist to see 'it' is to use it.''

''Life is too short to suffer with fools.''

''The future is not going to be what you thought it would be.''

''Nothing belongs to me but the time I am in.''

''Good morning cancer ... and that's the only acknowledgment I will give you today.''

''Paradise is not some place far off where you keep wishing to be but a state of mind where you already are.''

''Ascept nobodys definition on what your life should be, it is what you make it.''

''Having your head in the clouds is a good place to be when all others around you are losing theirs.''

''I mistook my angles as my demons.'' 

''Life is good ... and why wouldn't it be ... I'm an artist.''

''I know from my memories that the past was a reality and that the future is an illusion and that both are now in the present and that's all there is ... and only because I exist.'' 

''It is by chance whom are parents are but it will be by my choice who my friends are.'' 

''Behind every spoken word of sarcasm there is an element of truth.'' 

''I do not make my art to sell it ... I make my art because I need too, but if it does sell I have two prices ... 

expensive and very-expensive.'' 

''Have you ever noticed how the wrong thing can happen at the right moment.''

''When a man goes up river he has to eat what the natives give him ... I am still up river.''

''Happiness is not something that comes from contentment with living but an ideal that comes from the emotions.''   

''Anybody can do well at something he enjoys ... it's just a matter of finding that 'something'.''

''I do not have the words today to complement myself so I will try to bring them out in my work.''

''The critic will always give his opinion in knowing that he his right and the artist will always make a statement with his art and can end up defending it.''   

''When I said to God I was going to be an atheist he said to me .. alright, have it your own way.''

''The energy that goes into doing good is the same energy that goes into doing bad.''

''There is no difference between love and pain to a child who is abused in any way.'' 

''Sentimentality can blind any man's mind from the truth.'' 

''We could not 'experience' happiness without knowing sadness.'' 

''Creativity requires the courage to let go of the mind and be able to tolerate the insecurity that goes with it when you can do that then you can be creative.''  

''I'm going to live each day till I die because dying is going to be for sure an inconvenience for everyone and a real pain in the ass to me.''

''I always knew from an early age I was going to be an artist ... I don't think I doubted it for a minute.'' 

''You can't make a horse run like a stallion.'' 

''It's normal for people to think that to be an artist you have to be {a} revolutionary, well that's not quite true ... to be counter-revolutionary has a better result which can prove to be both positive or negative in their outcome ... it's called sitting-on-the-fence.''

''When people, no matter what their colour, beliefs or place in society are treated with respect and dignity everything is achievable.''  

''It is better to eat one egg a day than none .. or .. don't kill the hen that lays the eggs ... meaning ... don't get greedy.''

''If you were to go through life in a state of confidence you will succeed in all you do.'' 

''A sure way for pain, physically and emotionally is, trying to please everybody, you don't even have a fifty percent chance of succeeding.'' 

''The 'true me' becomes second nature when I improvise in my art.'' 

''Art is not only for the eyes but more for the soul.''

''All religion has evolved out of mans imagination, fear, greed and control but it takes courage to stand apart and be your own man.''   

''Life is not about finding yourself because you are not 'lost', just do what your intuition tells you and then you are truly yourself.'' 

''Think about the kind of thoughts you let dominate your mind because they don't change unless you deprogram.'' 

''Evolution has no cause to look at the past nor any reason to look into the future because we are in evolution.''

''I am sure at some time you have made the comment as to how 'bad people' seem to live longer ...
well, I am going to get myself some kickass-badness.''

''When the sadness is hurting you, you will feel you are living in your own world of despair and loneliness but living in 'hope' might be all you have to hang on too.''  

''A friend who can protect you in a time of despair or in a time of grief or confusion and then at sometime you realize that is the only person you can be yourself with ... that's what a true friend is.''

''I tell myself that it is better to live in the emotion of regret with some of the decisions that I have made in my life than in thinking today what if.'' 

''Art is the reason why I wake up in the morning.''

''If you have at some time ... which you have done but maybe have passed it over very quickly have given a thought to reincarnation, well ... consider which might come first ... death or birth.''

''Nothing is more despicable than to earn respect by psychological abuse.''  

''My art is something I am proud off and there is no compromise for being self taught.'' 

''Failure and discouragement you are sure to meet on the road of creativity, either case is simply the opportunity to succeed.'' 

''You are entitled to make a judgement that's if your judgement was learned from your own personal experience which can be bittersweet''  

''I try at all times to be optimistic otherwise I might as well give up now.'' 

''Talk about 'loneliness' and everybody, even if they don't admit to it know what you are talking about because it's all part of the package of being human.''

''My art is something I do without giving it a second thought.''

''In being alone has the advantage of having fewer problems that are created by others and leaves me with the feeling of being free and morally responsible for my own fuck-ups.'' 

''Sincerity starts from the pocket.'' 

''In the making of my art the two most difficult moments are ... the beginning and the end, and what happens in between can be pure joy as I know it.''

 ''You are likely to be more successful in finding water in a desert than a true friend in your life.''

''Society has it's roots made up from the family unit which any government likes to clam as the community and which is based on the assumption that the happiness of the community is the sign of a good government ... wake-up.'' 

''I know my body hears what my mind says and to my mind I say I don't have cancer.''

''I like to think that my art is a crossover from conscious to the subconscious and then returning and asking myself how did I make it .... not the art, but in returning to a conscious state of mind.''

''It is too easy to become a parent than to be one.''

''If we all start thinking outside of the 'box' it's because the 'box' needs fixing ... replace the word'box' with government, religion, relationships or anything else that suits your thoughts ... now you can truly start thinking outside of the'box'.''

''Age is all in the mind but unfortunately my body shows it more but ... I get a bonus ... I no longer worry about dying healthy.''

''The essence of a stable relationship is trust.''

''Don't be chaining your dreams to dogma  ... other peoples thinking is not yours to be yourself.''

''It's spiritual bullshit at it's best when it indicates to people that they can be happy without money but as human beings we are never satisfied with just being 'happy' ... and what makes most of us happy in this 'techno age' is ... money.''

''In our effort to correct what we believe to be the 'hurts' from our past, we can end up creating new problems for the future ... it all comes down to karma.'' 

''So you want to be an artist ... there are no borders when it comes to creativity ... think outside of the box ... better still, forget about the'think' part and just do it.''

''Grief is what comes with being human, sorrow comes from regret, love comes with forgiveness and death comes because we are human.''  

''The secret to a happy relationship remains a secret ... try explaining the inexplicable.''  

''Never be afraid to try something new in your life ... take risks and follow your intuition, no doubt that you will be more wiser for doing so.'' 

''The human behavior is controlled by our emotions that can also remind us of our humanity and which are stronger than any physical force in the universe.'' 

''A society who ignores it's artists is not creative nor accepts the liability to keep the stability.''

''I will share with you from my personal experience of me dealing with my cancer ... the secret of healing is ... ignore it, that is, don't give it any energy in positive or negative thought and praying is not going to help you but will help the cancer in staying very much alive because in prayer your 'hope' as in a cure and the concentration of mind is stronger.'' 

''The right amount of neuroses can make you interesting.''  

''My cancer ... I treat it as unwanted baggage that I want to leave at the unclaimed depot.''  

''My art comes from with-in, in trying to push my mental boundaries to cross-over and be free in mind and spirit and it's all created in solitude from my experiences in life, sadness and would hope for the end result ...wisdom.'' 

''When words are spoken in anger try to think of the overall consequences of your actions because one thing is for certain ... it will always end in repentance.''  

''Good and bad stuff will happen in life and if you can accept it as being for a reason then you have learned one of life's most difficult tasks.'' 

''Living in this world of karma there is no discount but only add-on.'' 

''When logic starts to interfere with my instincts that's when I start to get into trouble.''

''It's out of my loneliness that the ability to create comes easy ... that it becomes the only antidote to my loneliness but can still make me feel lonely, but the 'catch 22' is ... it makes my loneliness manageable.'' 

''I find that through my sculptures I have more things to say than trying to find the right words.''

''People like to have Classic books on their book shelf's to give the impression that 'they' are well read but the books are seldom read.'' 

''There are too many religions and not where all human beings are equal.''

''Money can go a long way in making your life easier ... that's if you don't have to worry about it.''

''Rich or poor we are all faced with the same end.''

''All the happy events in my life were unplanned and all the unhappy events in my life are unexplained.''

''Familiarity breeds mediocrity.''  

''Nothing in life is absolute ... except maybe what I just wrote.''

  

''Generally people would fear dying more than living but what I do know is that life can come up with it's own fears and surprises that when it comes to the dying part maybe you should give some thought to the reincarnation bit.'' 

''Solitude is a choice you can make in life, loneliness is imposed, something that is endured until it passes like a bad winter storm.'' 

''Find your reason for being and do it.''

''You can tell the ideals of a country by it's religion.''

''If I knew from the start how my sculptures were going to turn out then there would be no point in me making them.'' 

''I would like to think that my sculptures would stimulate thoughts and bring up the fears and emotions that we often tend to repress.''

''Talk is cheap ... except when a politician does it.''

''There came a time for me when the risk to remain in the womb was more painful than the risk to be born.''

''I try to look on my past as good memories because it would be sad to go to pieces over it.''

''The only thing that makes any sense to me in today's world are my sculptures but to others they make no sense.''

''Carving stone is the process of elimination of stone.'' 

''Cancer, it happens and regardless to what god you pray too it's your own personal baggage ... and believe it ... nobody will want to exchange places with you.''

''I consider old age to be always ten years older than me.''

''If God is talking to you people will tell you that you are crazy but if you are talking to God it's accepted as being normal ... now that's crazy.''