“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“You may not be a work of art, but you are definitely a piece of work.”

“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that art has often judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past has suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. I know too that the powerful fear art, whatever its form, when it does this, and that amongst the people such art sometimes runs like a rumour and a legend because it makes sense of what life's brutalities cannot, a sense that unites us, for it is inseparable from a justice at last. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts and honour.”

“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”

“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”