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

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

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

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Dada

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

You may have lost the battle alone, but we're going to win the war together.

You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

The joining of the Japanese with the French should make a new movement. I think it should be good for Paris.

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Coffee is a language in itself.

People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.