Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

I have a present for you.” He raised his eye brows. “I don’t like your surprises.” “You’ll like this one. Close your eyes.

Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongueswhen they have girls to manage

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

I know nothing and perhaps I never will.

The success of this album is very much in question. Who knows where it's going to go? My being a Spice Girl is no guarantee of anything, although I hope it'll benefit the sales.

When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.