Art is the most important way of recording history.

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting for Donald Trump.

Everything you do on Earth is political.

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

There is always that choice, the light or the dark

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

We are called not to adjust ourselves to each other, but to adjust ourselves to God.

Sometimes, when you can't fix the problem on your own, you need to make some compromises and find the partners who can get the job done for you.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

I'm hearing different things, but there is concern that stable Germany is no longer quite so stable.

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.