Art for me is the science of freedom.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

To make people free is the aim of art, therefore art for me is the science of freedom.

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Every human being is an artist

Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

Talk to yourself. Tell yourself you are beautiful. Tell yourself you are strong. See all the beauty that you have inside and speak it aloud. Let your mind see yourself in a positive light.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

Silence by any other name is called shame.

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.