''There is always something that you will bring from the old year into the new, mine is cancer ... where's the new year.''

''If I was not an artist the world as it is would be unbearable for me.''

''If you are comparing your life with others then it's not your life.''

''People who read the newspapers deserve to be depressed.'' 

''Doctors call their profession 'a practice' well ... I would like to think that they will get it right first time with me.'' 

''Most people will see what they want to see hear what they want to hear but few will listen to their 'gut feeling'.''

''You cannot truly know happiness without knowing sadness first.''

''I see my life like this, yesterday is filed and tucked away in my memories, tomorrow I may never see it and today is all I know until it becomes another yesterday.''  

''I am in exile from myself.'' 

''I do not speak the languages of words but I do speak the languages of a visualist and it was all I needed to travel the world to do my work.'' 

''If we don't end the wars sometime, and maybe in the very near future the wars will end us.''

''I am always amused at how highly educated people take religion so seriously.'' 

''People believe in a god because they want the 'next life' to be easy.''

''If your head is in religion it shows an inability to cope with reality.''

''We, as human beings have an advantage over other sentient beings in knowing that we will die.''

''Medicine is never going to progress ...
as long as god is in the laboratory.''

''My work is a transition in creativity with the progress of my thoughts into symbolism.''

''Politicians will give the 'thumbs-up' sign before elections and the 'fuck-you' sign after elections.''

''When you are not watching life creeps up on you and you get your butt kicked and then the sting remains for what's left of it.''

''When you fall take a rest then it's easy to get back up.''

''The world is an insane place to be in when we have not progressed in our humanity ... but somebody knows.''

''Living goes under the disguise as routine.'' 

''Christmas is cancelled due to a real concern for lack of genuine ho-ho-hoooo.''  

''Where does my thoughts end and my art begins ... they don't, both are the same madness from sitting on the fence.''

''Everyday Death stands behind me, one day it will stand in front of me.''

''Love is beyond definition but it don't mean it can't be reached.''

''It does not matter if life is good or bad you are getting through it ... but you can always change.''

''When you cross a bridge, best to burn it.''

''What ever a religion dislikes is classified as evil and what ever man likes is also classified as 'evil', yet the connection between the two is rarely brought to notice.''

''You think you have a routine monotonous life ... try spending your life in a bed.'' 

''I am an artist philosophizing in the third dimension.''

''Human mind is a weird thing, here be monsters''. 

''Life is worth living ... what you need is the confidence.''

''When it comes to your self-esteem ignore the voices in your head.'' 

''Dying now would really upset my future plans of dying in my own time.''

''Your imagination is someplace to go when you have to stay where you are.'' 

''Give life the best shot you have, but you are going to get kick anyway.''

''I was born in the right country to make me leave it.''

''Inner peace ... bullshit ... it's the fear in dying.''

''If I want to live now then I have to forget there was a past.''

''If you forget about the killings in the name of a God religion would be good for you.''

''Try thinking about this now, that somebody today is living their life to the fullest ... so why not you.''

''Reality is happening when everybody else is experiencing the same nightmare.'' 

''My dreams can have more fun than I do.''

''I look on life as to what I will do with it and not as what I could or might do.''

''If there was a 'God' here now on earth I do not think he would be claiming to be associated to any religious group.''

''I have many regrets in my life but one that can happen on a daily basis and that is, giving my energy in considerable thought to very inconsiderable people around me.'' 

''Religions were thought up by people who were the first to understand in how to destroy mankind.''

''The only thing that moves on in human beings is age.''

''People go from day to day in a life of routine and then the day comes when they find themselves even too old for routine.''

''I think today could be a good day to die but I could be wrong.''

''This life is yours, grab it by the balls and do what you need to do.''

''When you are young you can get by without needing so much money but when you get older you will need all the money you can get.''

''Everybody is entitled to their point-of-view but nobody should have to accept it as being true.''

''At the best of times I can be a pessimist, like when my glass is half full of stout which I paid for and the other half is full to overflowing of air, which is free.'' 

''I am writing my autobiography now, it won't be a best seller like the Bible but it will have more truth in it.'' 

''I am writing my autobiography and it's like living my life twice over ... I believe in reincarnation.'' 

''If you want to be happy in life you have got to think of yourself being 'happy'.''

''My ghost will be the only one who will stand at my grave.''

''Having a religion does not make you spiritual any more than going to pray that there is a god.''  

''My life as an artist is very lonely and requires a toleration and contempt for my own company.''

''If pain must come I want it to pass quickly because I have the remainder of my life to live to make my sculptures.''

''When it's all about money everybody is of  the same mind ... I want more.'' 

''It would be better to die poor having lived your life than to die with your wealth.''

''You no vote ... you know no history.'' 

''In your day if you can remind yourself that other human-beings are also in 'pain' then you yourself are in a change spiritually and as a human-being in less-stress.'' 

''Religion is the real cancer of mankind.''

''When it comes for me to die I want to be bored.''

''It takes more energy to be positive than it does to be negative.''

''What the freedom-of-speech means is that you can talk about what governments do not want you to talk about.'' 

''It takes more of an effort for the 'will-to-live' than to keep living.''

''You try to please everybody you are sure not to please yourself.''

''One day, one life, don't sit around waiting for it to kick in, 
make it happen.''

''Allow for toleration and detach from situation.''

''You can't predict a fool.''

''A society that calls itself democratic should also be a society where it is safe to speak your mind without problem.''  

''If you are in your ego all the time 

then you will be on your own.''

''Our 'good luck' we tend to give ourselves the credit for it 

but our 'bad luck' we will blame others for that.''

''When you were born you had no say in it and when you die

 you have little say in that too but in between you can say 

all you like about it.'' 

''Make no mistake about it but human nature and corruption 
are hand in glove and if you meet honesty in your 
life-time you will be able to count it on one hand.''

''When you are alive you just never know what kind of day
it's going to be but when you are dead it's already decided.''

''It always seems to be an easy option to piss on life 

before it has started.''

''Everything you experience has a lifespan.''

''When an artist makes a sculpture the details are carved from his own mind so that other minds can fill in the magic of it’s life''.

''A good chef can make bad food taste good.''

''The quickest way to a mans heart is with a bullet.'' 

''If you don't have failure you won't know success.''  

''A budget is a mathematical confirmation of you not trusting yourself with your own money.''

‘Some men go to war and some men work, some men will drink and others will die … but I make art’. 

 ''When we are silent it speaks in the mind and when

 we speak it becomes silent only then''.

 ''What is my time out of my life compared to the time

 the sculpture will 'live'.''

''The mind makes it first it is then up to you 

to make it a reality.''

''In the dense mist of time,
 what things are said between man and woman'' …. 

''Being sarcastic is closer than truth.''

''When an older man falls in love with a woman half his age 

it's not her age he is seeking but his own.''

''The optimist will see the end result the pessimist will 

only see the effort.''

''Private hospitals are all about money first and

 being hospital second.''

''If you can't change the situation you are in try to change your attitude towards it, you might be surprised as to how you will feel.''

''There are times when I think about dying and ask myself, 

will it be like going to sleep or will it be like waking up.''

''Life is like this ... when you are born you do not know where you came from, when you are here you do not know what you are doing and when you die you do not know where you are going ... life is like this.''

''Life is to short to waste your time with negative people, 

they will just make you feel you are one of them.''

''In 2013 we as human beings have advanced so far in technologies and medicines and yet we are killing ourselves off because of superstitious believes.'' 

''Being a good person does not mean that other

 people are also good.''

''When you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do 

is to smile ... the day can only get better.''

''The world is full of educated fools who will tell you ...

 they know better.''

''Don't believe in everything you think, 

that's why we have religions today.''

'When one person suffers from delusions society calls it madness, when society suffers from delusions one person calls it religion.'' 

''No one is born with racialism ... it is learned.'' 

''Don't go the way life always dictates but make life go with you, in this way you open doors that may never be opened.''

''Bad times will never last but bad people do.''

''I cannot live forever, but in my work I have 

created sculptures that will.''

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''Small minded people will always talk about other people.''

''Growing old is a high price to pay for maturity.''

''That second can change your life forever.''

''People are like animals they can turn on you 

when you least expect.''

''Life isn't always smooth going

but it can be a hell of a ride.''

''When you are living life it's hard to take it all in.''

''Children should be seen and heard.''

''Sometimes the right thing to do is not always the 

easiest thing to do.''

''There's a lot of shit about, but the good news is,

 there is only one fan.''

''Life can only get better if you are in a positive mind.''

''You might consider your life as routine but behind that routine your life still goes on.'' 

''Just remember that the expectations that you have for life

 could just be the same for everyone else.''

''In the technology world the new talk is all about 'Global Network', the language sounds right and the WWW will make it happen but before all this came about I think we already had a 'Global Network' only we did not call it that ... it's called Human Beings.''

''No human beings ... no 'God'.''

''As an artist you might 'dry-up' for a time

 but creativity never 'dry's-up'.''

''Men do their thinking with two heads,

the 'big head' and the 'small head',

though not at the same time.''

''Good things comes to those who work their butt's off 

and are willing to get their hands dirty.''

''There is no excuse for ignorance.'' 

''People will forget what you will do or say in everyday life

 but hurt is never forgotten no matter how hard you try.''

''Good artists will always be more than humble about their own limitations.''

''Your happiness is not there, 
it is never there with you ... 

unless you create it.''

''It is never to late in life to do what you wanted 
to do when you were a child.''

''Art is full of truth,

 it speaks through the emotions.''

''Change your thoughts and 

you change your life.''

''People that have artistic interests, it is said are also 

the ones that are most prone to depression , guilt, 

anxiety, stress, insatiability and loneliness ....

well that just about sums-me up ... 

 I think now I can call myself a fully fledged 

artist with a bag load of shit.''

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''You believe in what you are doing 

then don't take shit from no one.''

''I have no regrets for being me.''

''If you find you have to cry, cry with someone, 

better than crying on your own.''

''Unless you are dying you don't give 'life' a thought,

well I am dying and 'life' gets more than a thought.''

''You spend your time in looking forward to the
 next holiday you will have ... 

but wouldn't it be good to have a life that you don't need
to have holidays from ... think about it.''

''Make things happen, don't wait around for destiny 
and when it does happen ... live with it.'' 

''I am doing the best I can in my solitude, 

but sometimes I get lost.'' 

''I am what my mind is.''

''Maybe it is better to be unhappy with someone

than to be unhappy alone.''

''Life is too short to wake up in the morning feeling shit ...
do something about it and you could very well surprise yourself.''

''Don't be afraid to talk about anything we are all entitled to our opinions right or wrong, but you will find that if you do not give your opinion you will never find yourself in having a contribution in life ... in other words, it's called 'Freedom of Speech'.

''In my sculptures I try to create something, which is, in itself,

a'living' work that can touch on the emotions.''

''There is a very obvious action in 'kneeling down' or 

'bending over' but the end result is still the same ....

 you get f - - ked.''

''What time you have in what ever you are doing is always

 limited so don't waste it in doing what you know is not 

worth doing.''

''When my time comes to die I really hope I can say ... 

I have no more creativity left in me.''

''You have little control over the people you will meet in life 

but you do have control over the people who can stay in your life.''

''People will forget the good things you might have done

and said but they will never forget the hurt.''

 ''Don't wish your time away in thinking better times 

are on the way.''

 ''Your beliefs, what ever they may be and how hard you try 

do not make you a better person, but how you treat your 

fellow human beings, regardless of their beliefs ... does.''

''My sculptures are a subconscious reflection of myself.''

''Our emotions are a large part of our being and there
in no shame in showing them.''

''Sleeping dogs don't bite.''

''I am a passionate observer of human nature and use it in 
my art and what will matter in the end is that I was here 
in this time and will leave my own impression of it behind.''

''Best to keep away from people who belittle you.''

''God was invented by man so he would not have to 
take responsibility for his own actions and assumes 
that another man has the 'power' to absolve him.''

''The artist will often be lonely but no price is too high 

to pay for being yourself with your creativity.''

 

''There is not enough waking hours for my creativity.''

''Good things will come to those who work their asses off, because nothing comes easy.''

''God was invented by man to put fear into man.''

''When promises are made in politics they become lies.''

''The one thing in life that is as natural as breathing, 
is dying.''

''Mankind will never, now or in future have the wisdom 

to match his own inventions.''

''What any woman wants in a man is trust,

what a man wants in a woman is woman.''

''It's only fools that will gather around a fire on a sunny day 

and 'class A' fools who will cut down trees to fuel it.''

''A purpose in life would be to look for a purpose.''

''You cannot change the minds of fanatics and fools 
because reason cannot enter a closed mind that hears 
it's own bullshit and beliefs.''

''Don't knock suicide till you have tried it.''

''The yesterdays are the memories that can live

on forever with us and eat away the present time.'' 

''If we address each person we meet to day with ... 

''My fellow sufferer'' 

then we have a true understanding of being human.''

''Speaking the truth makes enemies but it's better

 than being with people who live in lies.''

''All mankind's knowledge is learned or invented 

by thought and that includes all religions.''

''You want people to pay attention to what you have
to say ....
hit them with a sledgehammer and then you'll notice  
you have got their strict and undivided attention, 
and maybe even with a smile on their face too.''

''If you wake up in the morning thinking something

 wonderful will happen ... well it just did .... 

you woke up.''

''Never let go of what you feel is right just because 

someone else has a problem with it.''

''The birds don't sing 

no more-nomore-nomore.''

 ''Judging a person does not tell you who they are 

but what it will do is to tell you who you are.''

''People who have a sarcastic personality tend 

to be more honest and upfront with you, 

better to have a friend like this than one who 

is sweet to your face and then back-stab you.''

''If you are content in what you are doing you 
will have an inner peace and if you are not,

you will always be in conflict with yourself.''

''What young people are taught by others and what they hear 

and see, what they are taught to believe also what they 

experience in early life will determine not only their future 

but the future for mankind, so generally things will not change 

 at any great speed.''

''Emotion and Reason ... it's a delicate balance that if you 
were to lose either one or both there's no telling what's 
going to happen, because both situations have a 
long time effect of no-return.'' 

''People that have artistic interests, it is said are also 
the ones that are most prone to depression, guilt, 
anxiety, stress, insatiability and loneliness ....

well that just about sums-me up ... 
 I think now I can call myself a fully fledged 
artist with a bag load of shit.''

''Creativity results from the interaction of all things 

within cultures that contains symbolic rules, and an artist 

 who brings the creativity into the symbolic domain which 

allows for the conscious mind to assess it's surroundings.''  

''Politicians come with a 'Non-Negotiation guide book'

to Negotiation for what's best for you, country 

and the world too.''

''A good deal of the problems in this world 
is because of people talking bullshit.''

''The majority of people have their two sides ...

 one they show to the world, and
 the other they hide from the world ...

it is best to try to live with both in balance.''

''If you do not have enough time in your life to do the 

things you really want to do then maybe don't give 

your time away to Facebook, it's in control and you 

are in habit with little to gain.''

''I try to make my sculptures with feeling and not with knowing.''

Speaking as an Artist:

''If there is one word that describes and makes creative people 'different' from other human beings it is the word ... complexity ... well, 

maybe two words now that I think about it ... paradox.''

''The one who tells you to ''smell the roses''

is a romantic, the one who tells you

''smell the thorns'' is a realist.''

''Rename Adam and Eve as Jack and Jill how

does the Garden of Eden story read to you now?.''

''If you want something you never had 

then do something you are not doing ...

be your self.''

''Speaking as an atheist ... if there is a god,

one that likes a joke, I would think that atheism

 would seem less of an insult and treat to him 

then religion does.''

''Some of the monkeys are getting off my back ....

                               but the circus is still in town.''

''You have to believe in yourself even if 

                                    nobody else does.''  

   ''Ignorance is the enemy of freedom.''

''If you are one of those people who forgive a little too

 easily you will be taken for granted.'' 

''I do not live in 'hope' because it's wishful thinking 
on my part and not what destiny had in mind, I live in 
a reality that has all the signs of kicking my ass and 
that's more like what destiny has in store for me.''

''It's better to call off a wedding than pay for a divorce.''

''Metaphorically speaking ... 
I will always throw a stone into 

a pond just to see how far the ripples will go.''

''Some artists are able to move between the many worlds of the mind but when we surrender ourselves to the subconscious we then need signposts to find our way back to the conscious ...

in my own case I like to think of it as making excursions 
into the maze of the mind in the hope a better work will 

come back with me.''