''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.''  

''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.''