''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.''

''I am one of the 'Lucky Ones' that has a life without owning a smart phone.''

''Buy what you cannot afford because if you have to sell the chance is you could make a profit.''

''Too much of anything and not enough of everything.''

 ''Religion is man's band-aid for being Human.''

''Love is curable by getting married.''

''The fool will always give advice to the wise man but the wise man will keep his mouth shout.''

''We are what are thoughts are and therefore we alone are our own keeper.''

''Genius is dangerous in the company of mediocrity minds.''

''If you are looking around you trying to figure out who the fool is ... best to take a long look at yourself first, before you start pointing the finger.''

''It seems, that this thing 'karma' is always with us, so, how people treat you is their karma and how you react to it is your karma, which comes down to life being a 'Catch 22'.''

''Do you want to be a hen or do you want to be an eagle.''

''A friend is someone who asks for nothing from you but your friendship.''

''It is easy to be without sin when one's never tempted ...

  best to stay away from the apples.''

''The artist can be more interesting than the artwork.

''War ... when its emotional impact is heightened makes beasts out of men.''

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

''When you start crossing 'bridges' it best to burn them ... going back is never the answer.''

''An Artist in all things should .... be an artist and then be an artist, and only then be an artist.''

''Religion is the comfort for some and a killer to others.''

''It is better to die poor having lived a rich life

than die rich having lived a poor life.''

''The activity and the focus for my art, together with Blues music, which is another obsession gives me the reason for getting out of bed in the morning.''

''I only hope as an artist I will go to the last breath.''

''I'm not here in this world to make 'pretty sculptures' ... but here to move myself.''

''If you feel like saying something stupid,

stick out your tongue and bite down hard ... all politicians know this but don't put into practice.''       

''It's only artists who know the movements of 'devils and angles' when it comes to create.''

''Artists can 'see' what no man has seen before.''

''Love and art can drive anybody into an asylum.''

''Better to hear a voice of a soul in Hell cry out than to be cut off from my work.''

''The fierce and idiosyncratic passion often attributed to artists ... morbid, unsettling, erotic and deeply disturbing is quite normal ... well, that just about sums me up.''

''Some people take out the trash ... some people bring it back in.''

''The artist that gets rid of his 'devils' may also lose the 'angels' that help him create.''

''No government is a democracy.''

 ''There is no such thing as privacy in any country.''

''I am a lot closer to death than I am to birth.''  

''When the time comes for me to die it will be an inconvenience both to me and everybody else because they will be too busy with their lives and I will be busy dying.''

''The differences between art and 'anything else' is that 'anything else' can be explained.''

''Creativity is an adventure by nature.''

''I have buried my head so far up my ass here that I can't get it out.''

''Why not the stories we tell become the stories we have lived.''

''The baby who does not cry does not get the milk.''

''If I have 2 beers I am 'fighting fit', if I have 22 beers I am ready to sleep.''

''Technologist is the new politicization of the world.''

''I am here long enough to see trees grow.''

''An artist by natures design is a unique individual for he or she can cross over the 'fine line' for the end result ... now where did I put my teddy bear, I know I left here.''

''In 3rd world countries cash works miracles.''

''If you think you will live into 'old age' make sure you will have plenty of money for the doctors.'' 

''It's better to be smelling of sweat than overrated perfume.''

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

''If you are 'busy' in your life you will be blind to the opportunities that will come your way.''

''I treat my cancer as unwanted baggage that I want to leave behind in the unclaimed department.''

''Unconditional emotions are found in dreams.''

''There is nothing more peaceful than owning the most powerful weapons known to man ... another form of 'Survival of the fittest'.''

''The world has never known total peace and it never will.''

''I do not make my art out of 'good feelings' ...

because my art has no importance to anybody else 

but me and my 'journey'.''

''... and still, l, within my mind, know ...
there is a separate reality....''

''Having a creative mind can save you from boredom but you will then find that everything else outside of creativity will be boring.''

''World economics has become the ruling discipline of our generation, so-much-so, that money has become the main measure of success and not you as a human being.''

''Technology is becoming more and more integrated into our lives that smart phones will outsmart us and tell us what to do in and with our lives ... it's already happening.''

''I have in my sculptures and art created something from my imagination that will live on longer than me ... it was worth the journey on the yellow-brick-road.''

''We each create a Heaven and Hell inside ourselves.'' 

''You shake my hand and I shake your hand .... that's payback in action.''

''The creative powers of the imagination that cannot find it's way into creativity can move into fantasy that can end up in delusion ... trapped.''  

''Human creativity is the end result of the imagination.''

''So many sculptures to make and so little time left to me.''

''I am in scam-nation and doomed to damnation.''

 

''Primitive peoples have always lived in tune with nature ... why can't we.''

''The human mind has an extraordinary indulgence for believing in what it want's to believe.''

 

''When I make my art as a statement I make it for all of humanity.''

''Medicine will never progress as long as God is in the laboratory.''

''In this modern world spirituality has been removed from sex.''

''We are our own people.''

''I can say 'yes' because I can say 'no' .. I can say 'no' because I can say 'yes'.''

''People attend social events just to 'bitch' with each other.''

''Greatness in art will never come from a 'comfort zone.''

''Once upon a time there was no time but now there is time because of man having a place for everything.''

''We live our life according to the 'smart' phone ... 

delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, delete.''

''We place to much importance on the trivialities of living.''

''I have made my cancer my friend, if I was to make it my enemy it would have killed me by now.''

''The proof is in the history.''

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

''I feel in the near future I will be going on a 'binge' of creativity.''

''There is a purpose to everything in life and when there is a purpose there is a reason and the reason gives the cause and the cause fulfills destiny.''

''People in today's Techno-World are so busy that there is no time to 'look' at art.''

''Everything is already here ... it just needs the right people to open the doors.''

''No internet ... now is your chance to be intimate.''

''I am living in a 'new age'  ... and then I think of age.''

''Give me freedom and I will give you my creativity.''

''No government, no religion, no oppression can keep the artist down .. but ... the artist cannot fight for the 'rights' of the people all the time ... the artist on his own battles with his own 'rights'.''

''There is 'beauty' in deformity and all you have to do is open your eyes.''

''I have never been racist in my life and I am not going to start now.''

''Creativity should not be flogged but nurtured.''

''You want a radical ... but you can't handle a radical.''

The meaning of RADICAL; favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms .. this is DAF.

''Today I am going to be an escape artist.''

''No government, no religion, no oppression can keep the artist down.''

''I am in artistic isolation.''

''A child is not born with discrimination ... it learns discrimination.'' 

''Yes, art is everywhere to be made ... but where is the artist.''

''I want shot at redemption ....'

''I was born at the right time for me and I will die at the right time for me.''

''Life is easy if you have a radio ... you can turn it off at anytime.''

''If you want something you never had try doing something you never do.''

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

''It should not matter if people believe or don't believe 

in your capabilities as an artist, though it will be a 

sociological wall in front of you at the best of times ... 

but what does matter is that you believe in yourself at all times that you are the artist.''

''Freedom of speech is every human beings birth-right and one voice can make all the difference.''

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

''Every human being is born with something that can kill them in time and there is no cure for it ... it's called ageing.''

''Nine-out-of-ten good artists will always be more than humble about their own limitations.''

''If people were to express themselves more often through their emotions we would have less wars.''

''Would you agree with me that certain people come into the world at the right time to move it and then leave it at the wrong time to fuck it.''

''I would have sympathy for the masses but no sympathy for the individual.''  

''Better to drink beer on my own than in bad company.''

''An Artist by natures design is a unique individual for he or she can cross over that 'fine line' for the end result ... now I know I put my teddy bear somewhere here.''

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

''A humble person is always willing to see a situation with the eyes of a child.''

''To talk of peace is not hard but to live in peace is quite hard.''

''Today is my birthday, 63 .. I think I am lucky I got this far ... so I asked myself what now and a voice in my head said to me ... you better sit down this is going to take some time to tell you.''

''I do not believe in a life after death but I know the strength of the mind and it alone can create it's own heaven and hell.''

''The man who swaps his faith in mid life is like the headless chicken running around.''

''The making of art takes over the mind and body to the extent that everything else in life is sacrificed.''

''It's best to go through life with an open mind,

but ... not so open that your brain falls out.''

''If I was to live for a hundred years I would still know nothing.''

''In the making of my sculpture it involves the use of different skills I have pick-up over time ... but the one thing I pay attention to is .. gravity.''

''It's better to die standing on your own two feet than to die kneeling in prayer.''

''Cowards can be the greatest and the cruelest of bullies.''

''In the making of my Art I will strive for some kind of

perfection in the work for the emotions to rise in the viewer ... but it will be on my own terms to myself as to how much I can give of myself to my Art.''

''Now is always the right time to speak out against injustice, don't expect others to do it for you.''

''There is no point in worrying in how you will die and when, best to give some thought in how you should be living because your freedom came with a price from history.''

''The man who will go to war for some kind of dogma has no morel courage.''

''Do the 'walk-of-life'... if you are happy with what you have walk with it ... if you are not happy with what you have out-run it.''

''My art has been my voice, otherwise I have nothing to say.''

 ''I do not want to wake up some morning and find that my freewill has abandoned me for some belief that is not of my own making.''

''Look on life as like living in a pin-ball machine and you are the ball.''

''Artists of any merit are always individualists ... they are 'busy' in their own head.''

''If it walks on all fours and it's back is facing the sun it will be eaten ... advice, don't play 'horsey'.''

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

''Every human being in the world is connected by DNA .. if every human being in the world knew this we would have a good chance of a world toleration towards every human being.''

''Anger acting-out is like as if you are on a Ferris Wheel pissing against the wind, it all comes back on you sooner or later.''

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

''When I can bring the subconscious and the visual into equal balance then I am in disbelief as to how far my creativity can bring me into the vortex of my own mind ... not all of the time, but some of the time.''

''You will always be able to tell the sincerity of your friends when they don't need your help.''

''I am looking for the edge but the edge has become flat.''

''The artist may age ... but the emotions and feelings that 'drive' an artist are the same from birth.''

''When someone buys one of my sculptures they also get the emotions that go with it.''

''The greatest loss of all is the 'innocence' and the 'life' of people who live in fear in the 'darkness' of ignorance ... the fear of corrupt ideologies and governments.''

''To love is to recognize yourself in another human being.''

''Analyzing yourself through the process of thought is a cover-up to who you truly are because thought is limiting yourself to your true potential that is ... you are listening to your ego.''

''Try smelling sweat than over rated perfume.''

''The government who ignores it's artists must accept the liability in not keeping the stability and solidity with it's citizens.''

''When I want to get in touch with myself I make my sculpture, but then I realize how little I know of myself and so the sculpture becomes the mirror of the self in thought.''

''When two people are gossiping they can pass it off as sharing.''

''If we really knew that there was a 'Heaven' after death there would be a mass exodus from life.''

''Eventually, all religions will die out but it will take time ... a very long time.''

''Take life with a 'pinch of salt' ... but you might find that to get through life you will need a ton of salt.''

''In 'being original' means you go beyond the accepted norms.'' 

''When I said to 'God' in one of my better moments that I was an atheist .. he said .. ''O.K. have it your own way, but remember .. I did give you freewill''.'' 

''You are not born into this world to live to other peoples expectations ... life is not about 'kissing ass'.''

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

''Life is like a chess game ... you have to make a move.''

''Technology is our life style so much so that in the future we will have less need for medical doctors and more need for the psychiatrist.''