“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.

Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

Fashion is more art than art is.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

Land really is the best art.