People want to see things that are visually beautiful.

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.

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

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.

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

Love is your only wealth. Everything else is just a mirage.

My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

My aunts still try to fatten me up.

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.