Diane von Furstenberg // "The girls who were unanimously beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to seem as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed."
Werner Herzog // "I do not have a cellphone, for cultural reasons. I do not want to be available all the time. I prefer to have a conversation with no phones on, nobody under the table texting or answering a message. And I'm not into any social network. My social network is our dinner table, which seats maximum six people. My wife, me, and four guests maximum."
Andy Warhol // "I thought that young people had more problems than old people... Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems. The "old" problems to me looked easier to take than the "young" problems. So I decided to go gray so nobody would know how old I was... I would gain a lot by going gray: (1) I would have old problems, which were easier to take than young problems, (2) everyone would be impressed by how young I looked, and (3) I would be relieved of the responsibility of acting young... So I dyed my hair gray when I was about twenty-three or twenty-four." ------------------------------------------------ Merry Christmas + Happy Holidays!
Tavi Gevinson // "If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them."
Susan Sontag // "Intelligence is really a kind of taste...taste in ideas."
Amy Winehouse // "I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied...as someone who was a pioneer."
Muhammad Ali // "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are."
Bob Dylan // "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're going to."
Allen Ginsberg // "Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself... You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
David Bowie // "I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them... The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey."
Edie Sedgwick // "I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary."
Louis C.K. // "I read something in the paper that really confused me the other day. It said that 80 percent of the people in New York are minorities... Shouldn't you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population? That's a very white attitude, don't you think? I mean, you could take a white guy to Africa and he'll be like, 'Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.'"