Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

I think with art you have to do a bit of transforming of the subject to make the art worth having.

The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.

What is painting today? It's a discontinued thing, discontinued from anything serious that happened in the past.

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

The 'Krishi Mantralaya' will now be known as 'Krishi Kalyan Mantralaya'

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.