To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.
To be naked is to be oneself.To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible.This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is...
A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she...
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing t...
If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a tota...
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
Democracy is a proposal (rarely realized) about decision making; it has little to do with election campaigns. Its promise is that political decisions be made after, and in the light of, consultation w...
Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.
هناك فرق شاسع بين الأمل و التوقع . في البدء اعتقدتُ أن الفرقيكمن في المدة الزمنية , و أن الأمل ينتظر أمراً مازال بعيد المنالكنت مخطئة . التوقع ينتمي إلى الجسد و الأمل ينتمي إلى الروح هذا هو الفرق . يت...
الأشياء الصغيرة هي التي تخيفنا، و الأشياء الضخمة التي بإمكانها أن تقتل هي التي تمنحنا الشجاعة.
We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You kno...
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Con...