"[About Yayoi Kusama:] Classifying her work as 'art brut' is simplistic and unfair. For me she represents the history of womankind. A sexually violated, politically annihilated, socially ignored and emotionally deprived feminine life. One of her works is entitled Self Obliteration, which seems to sum up a woman's utter despair, in life, in art, in anything real in the human world."

"Schifano è un pittore puma: Un piccolo puma di cui non si sospetta la muscolatura e lo scatto, che lascia dietro di sé l’impronta nitida e misteriosa dell’eleganza"

"È l’alba di una fantasia [...] La sua pittura è un darsi totalmente delle mani e del corpo."

"Mario Schifano per la qualità della pittura è un artista straordinario aldilà della sua biografia."

"Voglio dipingere la pittura."

"Spero sempre di fare quadri senza inutili volontà di spiegazioni."

"The ideas are contemporary to the gesture, I immediately spit them on the painting."

"Se non fossi Andy Warhol vorrei essere Mario Schifano."

"C’è in ogni sua opera brivido di movimento, fremito di ribellione contro il rischio della decorazione, c’è vita, mai staticità, morte."

"Painting is human, too human."

"Painting is my way of existing."

"I live in the present and in the future [...] I don't accept the blackmail of the past."

"I do not accept the blackmail of the past."

"As long as I'm alive I'm rich."

"Open the door, get on the floor / everybody walk the dinosaur."

"Boom, boom! Acka lacka lacka boom! Boom, boom! Acka lacka boom boom!"

"When we were in love, I pretended that you didn't exist. That way, I loved you more."

"They’re following some dance of light Tearing into the night Watching you fall asleep The sweetest dove in a dream"

"Our hearts just won’t die It’s the trip, keeps us alive"

"It's like a dream you try to remember but it's gone then ya Try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn when ya Try to see the world beyond your front door. Take your time because the way I rhyme's gonna make you smile when ya Realize that with a guy my size it might take a while just to Try to figure out what all this is for."

"Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state Then nearly fourteen billion years ago, expansion started Wait... The Earth began to cool, The autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools. We built a wall (We built the pyramids) Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery That all started with the big bang (Bang)."

"Lying in bed just like did."

"We've got these chains hanging around our necks, People want to strangle us with them Before we take our first breath. Afraid of change, afraid of staying the same. When temptation calls, We just look away."

"If I had a zillion dollars, (We wouldn’t have to eat Kraft dinner) But we would eat Kraft dinner! (Of course we would, we’d just eat more)"

"If I had a zillion dollars... I'd be rich."

"Jane, divided, but I can't decide which side I'm on. Jane, decided only cowards stay, while traitors run."

"I have a job in a shop, I'm an undercover cop. I make sure the customers aren't thieves. Old at being young, Young at being old. Everything's on hold within our evolution."

"Broke into the old apartment. This is where we used to live. Broken glass, broke and hungry, Broken hearts and broken bones. This is where we used to live."

"It's been one week since you looked at me Cocked your head to the side and said, "I'm angry." Five days since you laughed at me, saying "Get back together, come back and see me." Three days since the living room, I realized it's all my fault, but couldn't tell you. Yesterday, you'd forgiven me, But it'll still be two days 'til I say I'm sorry."

"Hot like wasabi when I bust rhymes, Big like , because I'm all about value. 's got the mad hits. You try to match wits, you try to hold me but I bust through."

"How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad? Trying hard not to smile, though I feel bad. I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will. I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve. I have a history of taking off my shirt."

"Like , I'm getting frantic. Like , I'm tantric. Like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy. Like , I make mad films, 'kay, I don't make films But if I did they'd have a Samurai."

"I met you before the fall of Rome And I begged you to let me take you home. You were wrong, I was right. You said goodbye, I said goodnight.It's all been done. It's all been done. It's all been done before."

"And if you call, I will answer. And if you fall, I'll pick you up. And if you court this disaster, I'll point you home."

"I'm gaining strength, tying to learn to pull my own weight, But I'm gaining pounds at the precipice of too late. Just wait.I could be good, and I would If I knew I was understood. And it'll be great, just wait. Or is it too little too late?"

"Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time? What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind It feels just like I'm falling for the first time It feels just like I'm falling for the first time."

"About 80 percent of our customers buy our shoes not to compete in, but to wear in their leisure time."

"I'm a clown with brush and color."

"I think Joseph Beuys is the most missunderstood artist of the 20th century. He opened a door into art for any idiot and now they traipse around believing that they have to bestow their favour on this rubbish, although it has absolutely nothing to say."

"The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, The Styles Of John Joven Sesame Street & StoryBots through imagination, invention and confrontation."

"Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else."