Maria Callas // "When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
Joe Frazier // "You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes – that means your preparation. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights."
B.B. King // "When people give me all these great compliments, I thank them, but still go back to my room and practice."
Charles Bukowski // "The less I needed, the better I felt."
Diana Vreeland // "Without emotion there is no beauty."
Andy Warhol // "I'd prefer to remain a mystery."
Brigitte Bardot // Serge Gainsbourg
Sade Adu // "Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost."
Stephen Hawking // "The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
Gottfried Helnwein // "When I look at a work of art I ask myself: does it inspire me, does it touch and move me, do I learn something from it, does it startle or amaze me...do I get excited, upset? That is the test any artwork has to pass: can it create an emotional impact on a human being even when he has no education or any information about art? I’ve always had a problem with art that you can only understand if you have a degree in art history, and I have a problem with theories. Most of them are bullshit anyway...Real art is intense, enchanting, exciting and unsettling; it has a quality and magic that you cannot explain. Art is not logic, and if you want to experience it, your mind and rational thinking will be of little help. Art is something...that you can only experience with your senses, your heart, your soul."
Aretha Franklin // "I sing to the realists. People who accept it like it is."
Charles Eames // "Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."