As a visual arts teacher, I have to keep my mind open. I have explores styles from pointillism to cubism.

The hands find a way to do what the heart wants to say

If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

I didn't study music. I literally lived it.

With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Your consistency says a lot about your commitment.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

If you watch Two and a Half Men, please stop watching Two and a Half Men. I'm on Two and a Half Men and I don't want to be on it. Please stop watching it. Please stop filling your head with filth.

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.

I'm quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to film making. Maybe there's also another alternative, that's walking on foot.