Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.

In some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

The entire art system urgently needs a vacation.

God created heaven on earth but man created hell.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

No worthy goal should come easily, he told himself. Suffering created value.

Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

Never lie, never cheat, never steal.

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.