“Your work has its own trajectory, and it goes where it wants to go. If you’re smart, you just follow it."

Kiki Smith
In a Wandering Way

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but I’ve never lost entirely."

Sam Gilliam
Artists Are Supposed to Change

“The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it."

David Hockney
The World is Beautiful

"A novelist is not a puppeteer."

Paul Auster
I Am the Laboratory

“There’s a strength in femininity, and it’s been very important for me to have that in the dresses.”

Cecilie Bahnsen
Inside the Design Studio

Yahya Hassan
Poems of Rage

"We try to grasp the fleeting moment and are afraid of losing it by knowing it too well.”

Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth

"You could be strange without being put in the hands of a psychologist immediately.”

Michel Houellebecq
Q&A with His Readers

“The moment you empower people, there is hope.”

Balkrishna Doshi
The Symphony of Architecture

“There’s humanism at the core of literature.”

Elif Shafak
Art is About Resistance

“Literature at its most powerful helps to shift the axis of an age.”

Ben Okri
We Can Ascend Mountains

Lars von Trier
Through the Black Forest