Sophia Loren // "Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness."
Georgia O'Keeffe // "I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me...shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my own way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Michelangelo // "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short...but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Maya Angelou // "Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
Gustav Mahler // "The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star, but to go one's way in life...neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Rene Magritte // "I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all of the obligatory sentiments. I also despise the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, radio announcers' voices, aerodynamics, the Boy Scouts...the news, and drunks. I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical."
Dionne Warwick // "I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them."
Mick Jagger // "My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like bricklaying."
Lauren Bacall // Frank Sinatra
John Lennon // "I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak...I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."
Henry Miller // "Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny...serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, or evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
Buster Keaton // "Think slow, act fast."