A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.

The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.

The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.