I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

Nobody expects you to understand the mind of God or know why he would love us in the midst of our weaknesss and sin.

Talent is unfair and undemocratic

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

I think people need to guard themselves in what they watch and what they listen to because I think that does affect who they are and why they do what they do.

Before I could talk, I would try to sing.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.

Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.