There's no single artwork I even want to mention or that I can even really think about it to have any feeling, to be proud of it.

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.

The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.

Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

Social standing and reptuation has always mattered, but now it 's happening on a global basis.

In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

I think it would be cute to marry your high school sweetheart, but I think it would also be nice to be sitting on a plane with somebody who lives across the world from you.