Anything you can do to protect the public and allow it to have the confidence that our financial controls are good is very, very positive.

Art is something that happens inside us. We look at things in the world, and we become excited by them. We understand our own possibilities of becoming. And that's what art is.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

The media, the galleries, the collectors - it's all very chaotic actually. The artworld doesn't have this defined corporate structure that people imagine.

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do.

I think about my work every minute of the day.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

A.I. might be straight out of science fiction, but it's going to turn into man's worst nightmare.

If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!

The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.