Constantin Brancusi // "They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things."
Isabel Marant // "You don't need a lot to be happy in life...I'm really somebody who believes less is more. I think we have too many things. It's just killing everyone."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe // "Build, don't talk."
Keith Haring // "The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation."
Federico Fellini // "You have to live spherically – in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way."
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."