NITCH

Photo of Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola // "It's weird being a grown-up. I think I'm just getting used to it."

Photo of Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler // "All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you."

Photo of Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot // "I used to try and make myself as pretty as I could...It was really hard to go out, to show myself. I was afraid of not coming up to people's expectations. Today...I don't give a damn anymore. I don't want to charm. Anything or anybody."

Photo of Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin // "I shut my eyes in order to see."

Photo of Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson // Madonna

Photo of Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald // "She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that's one of the reasons why they did."

Photo of Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint Phalle // "Life…is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don’t expect it."

Photo of D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence // "I should feel the air move against me and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong."

Photo of W.H. Auden

W.H. Auden // "You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at."

Photo of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan // "I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature cannot touch with decay."

Photo of Princess Diana

Princess Diana // "I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet people and love them."

Photo of Rei Kawakubo

Rei Kawakubo // "I have always liked the idea of synergy and accident...the idea of sharing space with other creative people or people who have something to say. We call it beautiful chaos...anything can happen, nothing is decided."