Unique forms of continuity in space, Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Futurism

London Bridge, André Derain, oil on canvas, 1906, Fauvism.

Woman with a hat, Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 1905, Fauvism

Improvisation 28, Vassily Kandinsky, 1912, Expressionism

Large Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1911, Expressionism

"Street, Dresden", Ernst Kirchner, 1908, Expressionism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907, Cubism

Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937, Cubism

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Dada

Nude descending a staircase, Marcel Duchamp, 1912, the Armory Show (cubist and/or futurist)

The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz, photograph, 1907, Photo-Secession

Light Iris, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1924, Precisionism

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, Giorgio DeChirico, 1914, Metaphysical Painting

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931, Surrealism

Dutch Interior I, Joan Miró, 1928, Surrealism

Object, Meret Oppenheim, fur covered cup, 1936, Surrealism

The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo, 1939, Surrealism

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Suprematism

Monument to the Third International, Vladimir Tatlin, wood/iron/glass model, 1919-1920, Constructivism

Composition in Black and White and Red, Piet Mondrian, 1936, DeStijl

Schröder House, Gerrit Rietveld, 1924, Utrecht Netherlands, DeStijl

The Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, 1925-1926, the Bauhaus

Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, 1929, International Style

The Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1907-1909, Prairie Style

Kaufmann House "Falling Water", Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936-1939, Wright's later work

The Chrysler Buildings, William Van Alen, 1928-1930, Art Deco

Bird in Space, Constantin Brancusi, 1928, Organic Art

Reclining Figure, Henry Moore, 1947, Organic Art

Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1935, Depression Era Art

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942, Depression Era Art

Migration of the Negro #58, Jacob Lawrence, tempera on masonite, 1940-41, Depression Era Art

American Gothic, Grant Wood, oil on beaverboard, 1930, Depression Era Art

Detroit Industry, Diego Rivera, fresco, 1932-33, Mexican Muralism

Happiness does not consist in things, but in the relish we have of them.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

I like to be in control of things.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.

I grew up listening to pop; I grew up listening to '60s pop music, the Beatles, the Monkees, Herman's Hermits and all that stuff. So I had a very strong background of listening to great pop music.

The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

May you find the courage to be grateful for every circumstance.

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.