I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

In the aftermath, we are because they were.

Being in love is highly overrated.book: stuff i think about

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

I like drawing. I like to spend the day drawing, the process is important for me. Drawing is a just a pleasure and it's nice to keep it going.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.