Pablo Picasso // "Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it..."
Akira Kurosawa // "Man is a genius when he is dreaming."
Iris Murdoch // "I think good art is good for people...Most of the time we fail to see the big wide real world...because we are blinded by obsession, anxiety, envy, resentment, fear. We make a small personal world in which we remain enclosed. Great art is liberating. It enables us to see and take pleasure in what is not ourselves. Literature stirs and satisfies our curiosity...it interests us in other people and other scenes, and helps us to be tolerant and generous. Art is informative."
Vladimir Nabokov // "Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!"
Sarah Moon // "Maybe I shouldn't go too long without working, my engine should run every day, because when it doesn't, I don't give myself a chance to make things happen."
Princess Diana // "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
Luis Barragan // "Beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment -- All of these have found a loving home in my soul...they have never ceased to be my guiding lights."
Abraham Lincoln // "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."
Virginia Woolf // "I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."
Igor Stravinsky // "To listen is an effort...just to hear is no merit."
Jean Cocteau // "True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
Marianne Faithfull // "I have to watch out for being lazy."