Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.

The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself