"The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight."

“If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late”

“Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Aug 06, 2015

“To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.”

Source : Jessica Simpson Gets the "Star Treatment in a Special Issue of WWD" by Allie Merriam, www.popsugar.com. March 28, 2011.

“Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.”

“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.”

“The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.”

“Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.”

“Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.”