Andy Warhol // “What’s great about this country is America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching tv and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the president drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think...you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."
Leonardo da Vinci // "Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else."
Mikhail Baryshnikov // “When a dancer comes on stage, he is not just a blank slate...Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life...You are looking at the person he is, the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be... Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people...people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest...They know who they are and they show this to you, willingly."
Billie Holiday // "If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
Fred Astaire // "Do it big, do it right, and do it with style."
David Wojnarowicz // "Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom."
Debbie Harry // "My biggest dream as a kid was to carve out a niche for myself in some interesting, creative way... I never allowed life to become boring."
Audrey Hepburn // "If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all."
Paul Newman // "From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being...by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant."
John Ford // "You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart."
Alber Elbaz // "You know, it's not about screaming, it's about whispering. When you scream everybody hears, but not everybody listens. When you whisper maybe not too many people can hear you, but it goes deeper."
Ai Weiwei // "Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you've experienced it, it remains in your heart, and no one can take it away. Then, as an individual, you can be more powerful than a whole country."