People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.