Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Often much of my work is very optimistic, or solution-based. I have always believed that art is a tool for transformation, and something that should give people some kind of agency.

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

If you're not taking care of yourself, lipstick and foundation isn't really going to do anything for you.