...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

All the humanity (Not the people!), are incrediable. What makes them incrediable is the way of thinking, the way of solving!

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.