We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the coun…

- Philipp Meyer

The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward …

- Philipp Meyer

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

- Philipp Meyer

She wondered how people would remember her. She had not made enough to spread her wealth around like Carnegie, to erase any sins that had attached to…

- Philipp Meyer

Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the damage th…

- Philipp Meyer

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were n…

- Philipp Meyer

You have to believe in yourself and only trust your own vision and instincts. If Id listened to what other people thought about my work in the first …

- Philipp Meyer

No land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth.

- Philipp Meyer

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to g…

- Philipp Meyer