Ai Wei Wei // "Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?"
Truman Capote // "The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul – desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change."
Muhammad Ali // "Champions...are made from something they have deep inside them—a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
Nikola Tesla // "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born."
Pablo Picasso // "When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
Richard Brautigan // "I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word mayonnaise."
Robin Williams // "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
Marlene Dietrich // "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized as wiser than oneself."
Peggy Guggenheim // "I took advice from none but the best...I listened, how I listened! That's how I finally became my own expert."
Chloe Sevigny // "I wish I had focused on school more. I was really not into academics. That was part of how I rebelled...I think that if I had stuck with it...I probably would be a more confident person now. Which is a boring kind of thing your mother would say to you! But it's honest."
William S. Burroughs // "We're very near a certain point where money doesn't mean anything. They say: How much money is this going to cost? This is really a totally meaningless concept. Money determines less and less our reality. Money is not a constant factor, it's simply a process dependent entirely on acceptance for its existence. We already see situations without money, and I think that we're coming closer and closer to it."
Ray Bradbury // "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die... It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."