All Human Suffering Concerns Each Human Being.

It's Not Hard To Stand Behind One's Successes. But To Accept Responsibility For One's Failures... That Is Devishly Hard!

There Can Be No Doubt That Distrust Of Words Is Less Harmful Than Unwarranted Trust In Them.

The Previous Regime ... Reduced Man To A Means Of Production And Nature To A Tool Of Production. Thus It Attacked Both Their Very Essence And Their Mutual Relationship. It Reduced Gifted And Autonomous People To Nuts And Bolts In Some Monstrously Huge, Noisy, And Stinking Machine.

We Must Come To Understand The Deep Mutual Connection Or Kinship Between The Various Forms Of Our Spirituality. We Must Recollect Our Original Spiritual And Moral Substance, Which Grew Out Of The Same Essential Experience Of Humanity. I Believe That This Is The Only Way To Achieve A Genuine Renewal Of Our Sense Of Responsibility For Ourselves And For The World. And At The Same Time, It Is The Only Way To Achieve A Deeper Understanding Among Cultures That Will Enable Them To Work Together In A Truly Ecumenical Way To Create A New Order For The World.

If We Are To Change Our World View, Images Have To Change. The Artist Now Has A Very Important Job To Do. He's Not A Little Peripheral Figure Entertaining Rich People, He's Really Needed.