The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.

I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.