Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.

People want to see things that are visually beautiful.

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.

I die in almost every film I've been in.

I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it.

Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.