Humor is the only reason to live.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Destruction is also creation.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes, ” Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.”“We’ll make it beautiful, you’ll see. Or better, we’ll make it powerful.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.

Faith is a big thing we explore.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.