In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
We're getting to this amazing place where the average size in America is a 14-16, and we're starting to see that represented in the fashion industry, and it's becoming more accepted.
I didn't want to escape my life and become a big actress and live my dreams. That was never the way it was; it was just these amazing opportunities that happened.
My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.
Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.
I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.
The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.
The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.
