Iris Murdoch // "Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free—if we are. Or because we’ve been educated—if we have. But...education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us...the confidence to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers."
Massimo Vignelli // "A personal style is like a handwriting—it happens as the byproduct of our way of seeing things, enriched by the experiences of everything around us."
Joseph Beuys // "Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives."
Man Ray // Of course, there will always be those who only look at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'.
Clint Eastwood // "There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality."
Stanley Kubrick // "If you really want to communicate something, even if it's just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about half an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you're getting at, and then discover it...the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart."
Bill Gates // "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
Freeman Dyson // "The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe, in some sense, must have known we were coming."
Salvador Dali // Walt Disney
Coco Chanel // "How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."
Sean Connery // "I find there are two sorts of people in the world: those who live under a shell...and those who move around and keep their eyes open. I have always moved around and kept my eyes open."