Kazuo Ohno // "What can you teach? Not art, that’s impossible. Contrary to the common view, art can’t be taught. I believe that a piece of work comes out naturally from a human being just like one human being comes out of another... You must have life coming out of you."
Ernest Hemingway // "We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."
Amy Winehouse // "I’m a very romantic person. I don’t mean romantic in a flowers and chocolate kind of way. It’s more like if it’s raining, I’ll go up to the window and press my nose against the glass and sigh at how beautiful it all looks."
William S. Burroughs // "Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax..."
Tom Robbins // "The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens…but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters."
Albert Camus // "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself."
Rainer Maria Rilke // "Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
Janis Joplin // "To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else."
Arthur Miller // "I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget."
James Baldwin // "Though we do not wholly believe it yet, the interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world."
Joan Didion // "I want you to know, as you read me, precisely who I am and where I am and what is on my mind. I want you to understand exactly what you are getting: you are getting a woman who for some time now has felt radically separated from most of the ideas that seem to interest people. You are getting a woman who, somewhere along the line, misplaced whatever slight faith she ever had in the social contract...in the whole grand pattern of human endeavor."
Marianne Faithfull // "I’ve got to where I’ve always wanted to be. I just feel more myself…and I’ve learned not to care what other people think. It’s happened slowly, very slowly… But I did it."