When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Men without joy seem like corpses.

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

I am afraid of dying-but being dead, oh yes, that to me is often an appealing prospect.

Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.