It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.

I love Armenian people - all of them. I love them because they are a part of the enormous human race, which of course I find simultaneously beautiful and vulne…

There was a touch of anxiety in the whole human race about its future.

I began to visit Armenia as soon as I had earned the necessary money.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature..…

'The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.'