I am in the world to change the world.

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 thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

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.

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.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

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.