''Why would I want to 'wish' in a new year, 2018 when it could be the year that I die 🙍 ... better to stay in 2017 where I did not die 🙌 .''

''When the artist loses the inspiration and the motivation that in itself is worse than grief.''

''Talk about 'loneliness' and everybody will know what you are talking about because loneliness at some time or another is experienced by all Homo Sapiens.''

''This 'life' is like movie entertainment as elevator music is to a live concert''

''Art is that passion that becomes an addiction that becomes a way to survive with the Mind in total.''

''When two people are 'gossiping' they will justify it by passing it off as 'sharing'.''

''No one knows what is going to happen 

in the future, but we still go on with living because of the 'fear' of the unknown in death.''

''The making of sculpture with clay combines the use of different skills but the one thing I have learned about is ... Gravity.''

''What can pass off as culture in entertainment and sport is another means of sharpening our survival instincts.'' 

''It's better to die standing than to die kneeling in prayer for help.''

''What scam 👿👿 is being run now that will end up harming the vulnerable ... ''

''Suffer consciously and the ego lets go, detachment ... suffer unconsciously and the ego creates more suffering, attachment.''

''In growing old it is said you become wiser, that maybe be true but some others will die before they 'wise up' in how to put it to good use.''

''Living life is not about doing what you might feel is 'right' but it can be about taking action even when the little voice in your head is urging you to stay complacent.''

''If we realist that we as Human Beings are unique individuals then we should respect others for their uniqueness also ... the same should apply for extraterrestrial beings.''

''Anger that you held on to for years is a cancer that lives on and on and is only felt by you who is angry.''

''Going to Miami with MyAnnie.''

''It's better to call off a wedding than find yourself paying for a divorce.''

''Difficult times can be a 'wake up' call ... it's Destiny's way in showing you another way in seeing the situation.''

''Good and Bad thoughts will manifest in form ... it would be a tragedy to miss out on anything.''

''I would fear human beings a lot more than I would fear 'God'.''

''The one who tells you ''smell the roses'' ...  that is a romantic,

the one who tells you ''smell the thorns'' is the realist.''

''Removing the hands from the clock does not stop time.''

''Solitude can be the dreaded enemy of youth but your best friend in maturity.''

''Never make a life time commitment on  temporary feelings .. they will pass soon.''

''Don't you think there should be lots more 'happy people' in the world if ignorance is bliss ...😏''

''Take an example from nature ... birds follow their intuition and take that leap, flap their wings and fly ... be yourself.''

''The man who stands on his own, not belonging to any particular 'group' can be a civilized cultivated individual and feeling in control of his own destiny ... the same man in a crowd can be a barbarian and ceased to be guided by his will but by his 'survival instinct' in the crowd ... look at any political or religious gathering.''

''Generally, it's cowards who can be the greatest and cruelest of bullies.''

''Man ... his beliefs and the beliefs of others will be the death of him.''

''As you get-on in years you become more vulnerable to the mind.''

''Fools will gather around a fire on a sunny day and 'class A' fools will cut the trees to fuel it.''

''When you get 'real' with yourself the world as you know it becomes 'unreal'.''

''It does not make any difference in what you do in what ethics you may live your life by but you still live in your mind.''

''For all the 'bad days' you have there is an equal number of 'good days'.''

''Two men are sitting in a room, one gets up and leaves, does that mean that the one in the room is on his own ... not if he is telling you he is hearing voices in his head.''

''Try to be surprised by something you find in each day ... it helps to get through the rest of the shit.''

''Being an artist is better than being on any physiologists couch.''

''Destiny will 'run' with you in the knowing that you are not afraid to take a chance in your life.''

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

''The wonder of this world is that you can make art about it.''

''They say God is everywhere but I can tell you for certain that He is not in my bank account.''

''Tomorrow does not exist until it arrives.''

''I am as free as the bird in the cage.''

''Men of God and men of War are both the same man.''

''If you feel like saying something stupid bite down hard on your tongue.''

''Poor people have religion rich people have money.''

''It is better to make your dreams a 'reality' than to 'live' in your dreams.''

''Real courage is living in a world where all human beings are accepted as equal in their beliefs, their culture and skin colour, but some will want to change the world to their way regardless of being human.''

 ''My life as an artist can be quite lonely and so requires a 

toleration and contempt for my own company.''

''If you are trying to live in the 'Now' then you forget there was a past and that there is no future.''

''I have asked myself ... 'where have I gone wrong' ... but that voice in my head tells me ... 'you haven't, this is your journey'.''

''The worst situation to find yourself in at any given time is the situation you can do nothing about.''

''Religion teaches you how not to think for yourself but think of others ... just like Communism, Socialism, Fascism and any other 'ism' that kills-off the people.''

''In a work of art you can see the result of a unique creative temperament in action at that time of letting go and crossing into the other worlds of the mind.''

''There is one thing in life that we take for granted and that is breathing ... the other thing we should also take for granted and that is dying.''

''I look on Death as a transformation ... now you see me now you don't.''

''A woman can turn a boy into a man or a man into a boy.''

''It is possible to change your religion but it is not possible to change your ancestry.''

''No one knows what is going to happen in the future let alone the next minute but we still go on with living because of the fear of the unknown in death.''

''You can play it safe and continue as you have being doing

 all your life covering it up by calling it 'surviving' ...🙈 🙉 🙊.''

''If you are going to make life plans allow for surprises.''

''Men do their thinking in two heads, the big head and the small head.''

''Everything outside of your self made you as you are today ... you are set on the path of life by your birth, birth-place and family.''

''It's stupidity at it's best and madness at it's worst end to try to save one lost sheep and leave the whole flock vulnerable.''

''Religion can be compared to someone who is blind from birth that goes through life bumping into everything and telling everyone, including skeptics, they can 'see'.''

''Look on life as like living in a pin-ball-machine.''

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

''Life comes with no guarantees but don't be afraid to take chances because miracles happen everyday and this could be your day.''

''Without Art there would be no joy or torment in being alive, for my Art has been my voice, otherwise I would not have spoken.''

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

''You keep looking back and your past will catch up with you.''

''It's not art till it's controversial and then it becomes 'sell-able' just by being controversial and not for 'being art'.''

''Everybody, and no exceptions, at sometime in their life behaves badly.''

''A good friend comes in the form of a book.''

''It is a curious mind that opens the way for creativity to be set free but a closed mind will stay in it's own self-made prison.''

''Joke about people and you will make enemies all around.''

''Everyone needs some kind of 'goal' in life, it helps to keep focused and forward seems good enough to me.''

''If there is one word that describes and makes creative people 'different' from other human beings in the world it is the word ...complexity .. well, come to think of it maybe two words ... paradox.''

''It is said that life is about 'finding' yourself, well, I would say bullshit-to-that ... life is about creating yourself.''

''The Internet has not just open-sourced information and made it available to us but it has also opened within us self-doubt, insecurity which brings on shame and guilt these painful feelings are coming from the consciousness that can destroy us and make us feel worthless, also emotions of insecurity that you are on your own because you are not 'that sourced information'.''

''Wait and Hope.''

''An artist's acceptance or approval of his or her work are 'powers' held by others, critics and those who feel they are in the 'know' ... but the 'real power' is still with the artist.''

''There's never any escape from yourself.''

''You keep looking to the past and you will never move on.''

''Not working always moves my butt to work.''

''My art is all that I know about myself.''

''The fear of Death can cripple life.''

''People may want my sculpture but they don't want me.''

''If you were to lend someone money and you do not see them again .... it was worth it.''

''Nothing in life is absolute except Death.''

''Making judgements on people does not tell you who they are,

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

''If it was the case that you were never going to die life would be inconsequential.''

 

''Being sarcastic is telling the truth dressed up in sarcasm.''

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

''You don't get through life without collecting a few scares or scars on the way ... physically or emotionally.''

''There are times, well, almost everyday now when I think about dying and ask myself, will it be like going to sleep or will it be like waking up.''

''Technology has solved old psychological problems within us but has given us new psychological problems to deal with.''

''Anger acting-out is like as if it's on a Ferris Wheel [Karma] pissing against the wind, it all comes back on you sooner than later.''

''If you are thinking that you have no problems today the mind will automatically invent some for you to remind you there is always 'problems'.''

''Generally, people on their own at any time in the day or in their life time fear silence, but it is in the silence you get to know yourself.''

''Ignorance is the enemy of freedom.''

''One thing you will find alive, active and consistent like the hidden disease throughout life is ... scams.''

''Nothing is as it seems on the surface but this is always as it was and will be.''

''Living is a disease which only Death can cure.''

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

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

''Sleeping dogs don't bite.''

''If you waste your time in thinking about what other people think of you ... don't ... if you only knew how rarely people think of you.''

''An artist in solitude will be an artist ... an artist in any place should be able to be that artist and that artist is 'free' only in being an artist.''

''The truth is rarely 100% true and never simple.''

''It is best for each man and woman to work out their own salvation in that way they are responsible for themselves.''

''With each passing day I am more convinced that the greatest threat to our survival as human beings is ... governments.''

''The reason we take on a habit is because we do it without thinking of the consequence but if we want to rid ourselves of that habit then we think about it 24/7.''

''Being creative is like being born everyday, but it also gives you a self worth ... and nobody can take that away from you.''

''When I was young everyday was the 'first day in my life' 👍  and now that I am a lot older, everyday is the 'last day in my life'👎 .''

''It is in the silence you will know yourself.''

 ''Believe me, I am just as surprised when I get it right.''

''To be yourself best to remember nobody can be better than you at you for you cannot fool yourself all the time.''

''Every artist needs validation.''

''There is enough religion in the world for men to hate and kill each other for their beliefs but there is not enough religion for all men to live in harmony.''

''Having a creative mind saves you from boredom but you pay the price, in that, everything else outside of creativity is boring.''

''You can make make a judgement when your judgement was learned from your own personal experience.''

''Home is where the battle is.''

''The 'world' is subject to perception when you are a child, but the older you get that 'perception' abandons you for 'non-stop thinking' of the mind.''

''Loneliness is part of the 'package' of being a human.''

''The world is round but human beings are now the square pegs in it.''

''There are only so many smiles in any given day to give or receive.''

''If a man is ugly he still has the chance of finding 'love' but if a woman is ugly her chance may never come ... life is a bitch.''

''You talk about the things you want to do in life only to end up talking about the things you didn't do.''

''The next 'world war' ... and we are heading in that direction right now would be like all the wars of the past rolled into one.''

''In traditional religions everyone is saying the same thing but nobody knows what that is.''

''Sometimes it's best to scream than to kneel down and pray.''

''Freewill or self control is an illusion, a deception created by the mind.''

''You can close your eyes to the cruelty all around you but you can't close your mind to it.''

''A saying that most people will hear at sometime in their life is, 'Ignorance is bliss' .... ignorance is not 'bliss' ... it is the cause of all human misery ...😑.''

''I have a diverse effect on people mainly because I say what is on my mind and so my honesty can be an amusement to some

and unbearable to others.''

''Art is full of truth, it speaks through the emotions 🔊.''

''Solitude can be the dreaded enemy of youth but your best friend in maturity.''

''1939 ...World War II began in the same year as the movie Wizard of Oz was released ... the 'innocence' of humans, [they followed the Yellow Brick Road towards the Emerald City to meet the Wizard] and the evil of WWII, [It involved more countries, cost more money and killed more people than any other war in human history, estimated at 50 to 80 million died, the majority were civilians, the same ones who would have walked the Yellow Brick Road].''

''People as they get older go from fantasizing about the future to fantasizing about the past.''

''Death comes when the dream stops.''

''There are a lot more people now than at any other time in the world, but in spite of having the Internet available to all we are now more alienated, confused and vulnerable ... which makes us much more dangerous as human beings that we now can destroy each other without having a say in it.''

''Misguided people and nuclear weapons are a very dangerous combination.''

''I was born breech with the umbilical cord around my neck and life has been like that ever since.''

''What the world needs now is inspired leadership and not a leadership that can kill off mankind.''

''Religion is the human beings band-aid for being 'Human'.''

''Push comes to shove ... and push will always come to shove.''

''A more truthful way in greeting each other would be to say ... 'dealing with my demons'.''

''Religions of all kind keep people in ignorance and therefore the mind cannot evolve and accept change on it's own conditions.''

''A 'true love' has it's very high 'high's' and it's very low 'low's' ... it's up to us.''

''It's a human condition that people will blame you if you say too much ... people will blame you if you say too little and people will also blame you if you say just enough ... best to detach from the human condition.''

''If you are looking for something you never had, then do something you never did ... be your-self, then that 'something' will be there.''

''To believe in the words written down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone who is long dead and of a different time and mindset to be true and then apply them to today's mindset is like trying to make water flow up hill.''

''Your mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.''

''The 'hidden message' is an extension of the subconscious that can work it's way out in art.'' 

''As an artist I can run free with my mind and predict.''

''A frying-pan or pussy [cats] will get more 'likes and shares' on fb than anything to do with art.''

''The sad truth about human beings is that we feel the need to put each other into separate boxes of class, race and gender ... THE END.''

''When you understand the joke you can say you understand the language.''

''Talk is cheep, except when a politician is making promises.''

''I am genuinely curious to know what path of logic leads people to believe that such practices in the name of religion can have any beneficial value ... all human beings are equal, even in the eyes of any god.''

''Think about the madness of the world we live in.''

''Love is curable by getting married.''

''You are not your job.''

''I use to live in the 'land-of-plenty' ... now I live in the land of 'out-of-stock'.''

''I'm old enough to be half as stupid.''

''When you were born you had no say in it and the time you die you have little say in that too ... but in between, you can say all you like.''

''Speculation derived from a rumor has a way of becoming fact.''

''If you laugh at yourself you will be always laughing.''

''A prostitute is where you can go to have sex .. a mistress is where you will go for comfort and a wife can send you to both.''

''Saints don't smell.''

''Art has always been the medium of revolution.''

"The world changes without asking ... even if we don't.''

''Go ahead, rant against atheism, show how intolerant you are.''

''For people to part with money for art they have more of a need for art.''

''There is nothing like a natural disaster to bring human beings together as apposed to terrorist attacks that will only make for more war.''

''Many people will question, but few will stand when God will stand in front of them.''

''Money is like manure .... it's only put to good use when you spread it around.''

''Superheros in swimsuits with fetish fantasies ... what more can any modern day teenager want.''

''My short-term memory is so bad that I can forget my own name, but my long-term memory is so good that I can remember my own birth.''

''It's just another day to get through to the next day which will be another day to get through to the next day ... such is life.''

''I am marching to the beat of my own drum.''

''All of 'this' is going to pass soon.''

''All governments lie''

''The artist who is led by the disillusioned pierrot shows indications that the artist has run out of new ideas ... but still hopes that all this will pass soon.''

''All the vitamins a man needs is in beer.''

''I live other 'lives' for all to make my art .''

''In life when you feel the need you have to act because life is not waiting for you.''

''In the process of creativity, be it in mind or action you will discover yourself for creativity allows the soul to connect to your humanness.''

''We all fall down.''

''The simple no bullshit way to look at life is .... 

ha, ha,  or  oh, ooh.''

''I find that in the world we live in today people are insincere with their words and promises ... does 'making a promise' or 'giving your word' not mean anything anymore.''

''I would regard myself eccentric and others would call me arrogant but if I had money to go with my eccentricities then they would call me their friend.''

''I never found it necessary to learn another language but art.''

''God is everywhere [they say] ... but I for one can tell you, He is not in my bank account.''

''If you want to take the fall get someone to push you hard from behind but if you want to take the leap you will need to push yourself harder.''

''The world is full of educated fools who know better.''

''This would make 'good art' [choose anything'] but nature does it better, the reason why humans want to look at nature through 'human eyes' is to feel they tooo are god.''

''A good day is when I don't 'fall out' with myself.''

''Without silence there can be no sound.''

''Even your 'best friends' can turn into enemies and that will hurt more than meeting the 'real' enemy.''

''I abandoned being human when I work as an artist because I believe that the art made by me is from a 'true' human perspective who can feel the isolation that can bring rejection, the self-doubts that can move to despair and then comes the ridicule followed by contempt and even humiliation, but all that can make me feel 'human' to be that artist that will do it all over again and again.''

 ''If you're atoning for sins committed in a previous life ... stay well away from religion in this life.''

''When I make my sculpture it can reflect where I am mentally.''

''Children should be seen and heard.''

''Politics will always suit the pockets of politicians.''

''The best way to get attention is by being quite.''

''Great men know when to be humble.''

''Behind every act of kindness there is always some kind of motive, be it spiritual or otherwise.''

''I stand on my own, mentally and physically, fighting my own inner devils along with the ones outside of myself.''

''The majority of people will tend to hide their faults and mistakes in life but the artist in wisdom will show his.''

''Death is the equalizer to all living things.''

''The making of my art is a solitude endeavor between me and my material on one hand and me and the subconscious mind on the other. I like to think that the work reflects my values with the interaction of the human emotions but also breaking away from conventions that the process of creativity that for me is very much a self discovery.''

''In every decision that you make it opens other 'doors' that only you are responsible for.''

''Sometimes people will come into your life and you will know there are suppose to be there, for good or bad.''

''My art is the extension of my personality ... not to everybody's taste.''

''History is the true mirror of life ... but we never look into it.''

''No art ... no live ... no life ....''

''Cancer is nature's way of culling ... war is man's way.''

 ''If you go through life in taking nothing for granted you will have fewer disappointments.''

''It is far easier to find people believing in a 'supernatural power' than it is to find people who have a mind of their own to ask questions for themselves.''

''Solitude can be the dreaded enemy of youth but your best friend in maturity.''

''The genius can come down from his mind to be humble ....''

''Every action is an action closer to death.''

''Freedom means nothing if your mind keeps you prisoner.''

''Pick a time since WWII and you might think you felt 'safe' ... but now 2017, it's a new 'ball-game' in politics and war, now think twice about 'feeling safe'.''

''Two men are sitting in a room in silence, one gets up and leaves, does that mean the one in the room is on his own ... not if he is telling you he is hearing voices in his head.''

''When you are tied up in your own thoughts the fall can be hard if you are fooled .. even by your own thoughts.''

''The critic will always give his opinion in knowing that he his right but the artist will always make a statement for his art that will end up defending it ... art is not only for the eyes.''

''When differences of beliefs and societies base their culture on religious beliefs go to war the real 'war' that needs to be fought is on ancient superstitions and practices.

''If you only knew how rarely people think of you then you would not waste your time in fretting about what other people think of you.''

''I asked myself ... where have I gone wrong in life, and a voice in my head said to me ... you better sit down this is going to take some time to tell you.''

''The greatest loss of all is not just that of life, which will come to us all someday, but of the 'innocence' of the living ... that is, in believing what is said by those who ego's do the talking.''

''At the best of times it's better to be alone because nobody can hurt you.''

''An artist can come back and 'work' through other artists ... it just takes 'belief', but it will not last.''

''Mankind has not reached the wisdom 

to match his technology.'' 

''Rename 'Jack and Jill' as 'Adam and Eve' ... how does the rhyme read to you now.''

''Suffer consciously and the ego lets go, detachment, suffer unconsciously and the ego creates more suffering, attachment.''

''When the 'will' is no more death moves in.''

''No artist evolves out of nothing ... it develops from a non-stop battle between the 'reality-of-what-is' and the 'never-never land'.''

''More would take away from the poignancy.''

''I am a prisoner here of my own device.''

''As an artist creativity is all part of the 'game' in life and can be better than any physiologist's couch ... but how long can 'creativity' keep one off the couch ... if the 'game' is the mind.''

"Beware of all 'Kings' which require new clothes"

''Sometimes, an accepted fact is a lie.''

''Throughout time millions of people have died for their beliefs and not one had any proof of a 'god' ... so much killing on the basics of reading and interpreting so called 'religious books'.''

''We all came into this world 'the same way' [birth] and we all will leave it 'the same way' [death] therefore in this we are all equal ... but what happens in between is not 'the same way' ... 
[the universal condition of human existence].''

''Mankind, for his beliefs will be the death of him and his freewill.''

''I cherish the 'ups' and I won't miss the 'downs'.''

''If you keep the company of fools you too will become a fool.''

 ''I was born 'innocent' into this world and my hope would be to die 'innocent' but I know now that is not possible ... so I will settle for dying a lot more 'wiser'.''

''In this time now we are no longer unaware of how different cultures can live because we are now living in the time where primitiveness is merging fast into modernity that the opportunity to look into our own origins will soon be gone ... civilizations can and have disappeared in a shorter time.''

''Artists of any merit are always individualists.'' 

''The mind can be harder to open then a locked door.''

''Anger is natural and has it's purpose but always has to be controlled.''

 ''Older people relax, younger people loiter ... how society can discriminate using the written or spoken word.''

 ''If you listen to children with the mind of an adult it is with a closed heart.''

 ''Any woman can call herself 'free' in mind and body when she can make the choice to be a mother or not.''

 ''It always amuses me every time as to how so-called highly educated people can take religion so seriously.''

''There is 'no-box' when it comes to art but there is a 'box' for everything else.''

''The 'attention' will wear off when the pain wears off.''

''In order to survive you need some poison.''

''People in science look to the future ... people in religion look to the past ... people in the arts look everywhere.''

''Old men make war ... young men fight them.''

''Artists can be prisoners to their cultures and paymasters, albeit for most, and I include myself here it can be a willing compromise to make art, but let us not forget that the 'Art' could also be at a compromise.

''Happiness is a novelty ... it will soon wear off.'' 

''All art can influence people in some way or other to take a look at life outside of 'the box'.''

''The problem with creativity ... the 'eggs' are everywhere.''

''I think for the first time I have seen a profit today .... oh, you are so fortunate I wish I could see a prophet, it would make all the difference.''

''I like to look on death as a transformation ... now you see me, now you don't.''

''If you are sitting back and feeling content with your life, don't get too comfortable ... Destiny will find you.''

"I am told the fire is hot but I want to know it for myself .''

''To live my life as an Artist I have to drop any fear in all aspects of my life and trust in my creativity, in that way I am getting through life on a self discovery trip.''

An atheist lives in the present ...

[This is as good as it is going to get.]

An agnostic lives in the past ...

[What if this is as good as it is going to get.]

One with religious views lives in the future ...

[Things are going to get better, I know because God loves me.]

''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 as having a contribution in life ... in other words, it's called 'Freedom of Speech'.''

''Love and chance are the partners in life that is fully lived.''

 ''The 'God' that people die for depends on us as human beings for it is in our 'belief' that 'God' is achieved.''

''My art and the whole process of making it has being my life ... but it has saved me from 'bah-bah-black-sheep'.''

''A man can travel the world ten times over and never leave his mind .... best to try to move up to first class.''

''A maths professor and an art professor will view the world through the same eyes.''

''All 'True Stories' have their lies too.''

 ''If you want to see the bleakest portrayal of life imaginable, go and see a film set in Ireland ... 'Angela's Ashes' comes to mind.''

''Life is a give and take situation ... breath in breath out.''

''I would sooner stand on my own two feet than see the world upside down standing on my head.''

''The majority of people will tend to hide their faults and mistakes in life but an artist [in wisdom] will exhibit his.''

''Each day can bring the chance for you to 'clam back' more of yourself, for we are born not knowing our true self worth.''

''How you want other people to treat you will be the same way as how you treat them.''

''What is the difference between a pilot and an artist .. everything about the pilot is focus and control ... an artist will say, fuck-it.''

''You have already failed in life if you sit back and do nothing about anything.''

''As an Artist when I find myself in the process of creativity, it is better than any physiologist's couch.''

''I trust my intuition in that it probable has saved me from making more mistakes than I already have.''

''Turn a blind eye and you are likely to get your butt kicked.''

''Death is the final journey we will all take, a one way first class ticket on the mystery train that is paid for in exchange for life ..... just look on it as the light has gone out and no more replacement.''

''You are where you are because of your thoughts and you are going where your thoughts will bring you.''