Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

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.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius — and I count myself among these — have to restore the lost connection once more.