Iris Apfel // "I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something...a bolt of lightning."
Faiz Ahmad Faiz // "Look...the mouths of the locks are beginning to open, the links of the chains are coming undone...truth is still alive."
Billy Wilder // "Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio."
Albert Camus // "That's why I like you so much. Your heart isn't dead."
Andre Malraux // "Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
Joseph Brodsky // "By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech... Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal, our evolutionary, linguistic beacon."
Francoise Sagan // "The questions I would have liked to ask people were: Are you in love? What are you reading?"
Erich Maria Remarque // "Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel."
Brad Pitt // "What's the point? ... I go through that cycle, too, you know? What's the point? I know what the point is—it's communicating, it's connecting. I believe we're all cells in one body; we're all part of the same construct. Although a few of us are cancerous. It's helping others...help each other, that's it."
Pablo Picasso // "What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician...or even, if he's a boxer, only some muscles? Quite the contrary, he is...a political being constantly alert to the heartbreaking, passionate or delightful events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image... No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy."
Kate Moss // "It's kind of rebellious to be yourself."
Dave Chappelle // "The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. "I don't understand this person. So they're crazy." That's bullshit. These people are not crazy. They're strong people. Maybe their environment is a little sick."