History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

Buying art is not understanding art.

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

As a child I had no toys; our house was bombed, but there were lots of bricks. Ruins are wonderful because they are the beginning of something new, you can do something with them.

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Sometimes you fail

A smile costs nothing.So don't waste it!

It’s not the application that is stopping people from using timeless knowledge passed on to us, it’s the acknowledging part.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.