Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.
My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall. Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.
If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need. '
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.