For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

I am no professional politician-which is perhaps why I am continually obsessed by the question as to the purpose served by the work done by my friends and myse…

I grew up in a large communal apartment where most of the rooms were occupied by my family and relations and only a few by outsiders. The house was pervaded by…

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Since marriage began, the great artist has been known as a bad-boy husband. But he is worse: he is a child-robber, a bloodsucker, a hypocrite and a cheat. Peri…

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.