Every man is an artist.

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

Art for me is the science of freedom.

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.

You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

If you risk nothing you gain nothing

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.

If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.