Karl Lagerfeld // "I never touch sugar, cheese, bread...I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat."
Gerhard Richter // "I do not obey any intention, system or trend; I have no programme, style or pretension. I love uncertainty, infinity and permanent insecurity."
Rudolf Nureyev // "Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration."
Nelson Mandela // "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Vidal Sassoon // "If I was going to be in hairdressing, I wanted to change things. I wanted to eliminate the superfluous and get down to the basic..."
John F. Kennedy // Jacqueline Kennedy
Charlie Chaplin // Walt Disney
Kurt Vonnegut // “I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
Thelonious Monk // "A genius is the one most like himself."
Niels Bohr // "No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
Audrey Hepburn // "I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing...when I couldn't sing, and dance...when I couldn't dance—and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."
Pablo Picasso // "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? ...If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."