"Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind."

“You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.”

“It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood.”

“What interests me is the unforeseeable.”

Source : David Thistlewood, Sigmar Polke (1996). “Sigmar Polke: Back to Postmodernity”, p.155, Liverpool University Press

“To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.”

“Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.”

“So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.”

“I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”

Source : "Literature about medicine may be all that can save us" by Andrew Solomon, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2016.