“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”

“Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.”

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”

“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.”

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”

“I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.”

“I have a vision that suddenly all the Jewish people [from around the world] will come to live here… And if there were 10 million Jews here, we wouldn't have to give up on anything.”

“No one is perfect in this imperfect world.”

“Any decent kind of world, you wouldn't need all these rules.”