I am the most curious of all to see what will be the next thing that I will do.

Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

A necessary process for the artist is one which begins with a point of view, a reaction to the environment, to people, to whatever it is one is concerned with.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Fail faster, but (more importantly) fail intelligently.

We are capable of great works through the mighty power of the Holy Spirit.

Pain is only temporary, but victory lasts for ever.

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…

Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

And what fate befalls mutineers?

We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place.

The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.