Colin Wilson // "I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them."
Naomi Campbell // Kate Moss
Rainer Maria Rilke // "So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen...You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you...Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."
Ansel Adams // "The whole world, to me, is very much 'alive'— all of the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life...the things going on within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."
Maria Callas // "Do not talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules."
Marilyn Monroe // "Beneath the makeup and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
Arvo Pärt // "I had to get rid of everything unnecessary...in order to save myself."
Keith Richards // "I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself."
Walker Evans // "Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach."
Thomas Edison // "Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
Billie Holiday // "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
Today on Nitch.com -- NOTES on Keith Haring // "Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it... and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it."