Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Emptiness is like air. It floats around unseen but you know it's there.

In all those faces, I saw, your face.Amen, Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue Circle

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

Everything which is human is alien to me.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.