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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fact is just fiction with different storytellers

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.