These are obviously artists who actively respond to the world they live in and who use the aesthetic to engage the real.

They are artists who understand the power of art to disturb our complacency and they use it to reveal the fictions that surround us.

I think what they are doing is extraordinary. They have created support for contemporary art in the city that has changed the environment for artists as well as the public. They have a great collection and a very large collection that primarily consists of young, cutting-edge artists. ... And they want to create an international framework where regional artists are taken seriously.

He's one of the best midfield players in the world, if not the best. He's good in the air, he can pass a ball 60 yards or five yards, he's got great pace, good stamina, he's strong, he can tackle. That's what a great midfield player is all about.

We had the dream that the Internet would free the world, that all the dictatorships would collapse. We see it was just a dream.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.