Isabelle Adjani // "I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness. You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human."
Edith Sitwell // "Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness."
Freddie Mercury // "We're seeking perfection, even if we know it's virtually impossible to find...We are meticulous. It drives some...guys mad, but we want everything to be as good as it can..."
E.E. Cummings // "Remember one thing only: that it's you...nobody else...who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you, nor can you be alive for anyone else."
Henri Matisse // "An artist must never be a prisoner... An artist must never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc."
Ruth Badar Ginsburg // "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made... It shouldn't be that women are the exception."
Daphne Guinness // "We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
Nikola Tesla // "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart... like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
Maya Angelou // "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
Bridget Riley // "I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw...that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling...the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more...other things may find that they can come through."
Dan Winters // "I usually like to strip things down to basics...simplicity and removing variables leaves you with only your sensibility and your voice...great work is deceptively simple."