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.

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.

It is always, first Self, then everything else.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Just because your feet are on the ground, doesn't mean you weren't born to fly.

If you're in California and it's raining, stay home, because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

We should be so joyful from God's grace that others would respond by saying, 'I wish I had your God.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!