Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck.So the question is: Have you ever done that?

I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.

My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

... good intentions are not sufficient to solve our problems.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

It is exciting and emancipating to believe we are one of nature's latest experiments, but what if the experiment is unsuccessful?