It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

I was put in this world to change it.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.

I pulled back and stared up into his eyes. "You're gettin' very deep on me."Alec's hands gripped my behind. "I'll be getting very deep in you if you keep looking at me like that

Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

You're never promised your next breath.

Read books. They are good for us.

It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from.

Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.