Paul Auster // "You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings...your own face is invisible to you. You see other parts of yourself, arms and legs, hands and feet...but never your face, and in the end...as far as others are concerned...your face is who you are... Even you, who have lived inside your body...would probably be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to speak of your ear, or your elbow...All so familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves..."
Joan Didion // "I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
Elizabeth Taylor // "It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."
Johnny Cash // "Life is rough so you gotta be tough."
Richard Feynman // "I have a friend who’s an artist...He’ll hold up a flower and say..."I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he’s kind of nutty...I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more...I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty... The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color...the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds."
Nikola Tesla // "My brain is only a receiver...in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists."
Mos Def // "Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate."
Anna Wintour // "People respond well to those that are sure of what they want."
Oscar Wilde // "I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
Paolo Roversi // "My photography is more subtraction than addition. I always try to take off things. We all have a sort of mask of expression. You say goodbye, you smile, you are scared. I try to take all these masks away and little by little subtract until you have something pure left. A kind of abandon, a kind of absence. It looks like an absence, but in fact when there is this emptiness I think the interior beauty comes out. This is my technique. Or at least it’s what I think my technique is!"
William Eggelston // "I am at war with the obvious."
Anne Frank // "We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but...we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working...not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction."
