Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

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

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

You can’t find God through astronomy

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses.

I want to have my own line and collection.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

Marketing is everything and everything is marketing.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.