Andy Warhol // "When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them."
Heath Ledger // "I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am."
Alejandro Jodorowsky // "It's so weird to be alive and to be inside a body."
Marina Abramovic // “Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre. The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.”
Charlie Chaplin // "To those who can hear me, I say — do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed — the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish... You, the people, have the power... Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth the future and old age a security... Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness...let us all unite!"
John F. Kennedy // "Our problems are manmade...therefore, they can be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable...and we believe they can do it again."
Diana Vreeland // "Give them what they never knew they wanted."
Winston Churchill // "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
Thelonious Monk // "The only cats that are worth anything are the cats that take chances."
Leonard Bernstein // "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another...and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
John Malkovich // "...if someone isn't vulnerable, I can't be around them to a certain extent... That quality exists in a lot more women than men. I have probably four or five male friends who have a real strong masculine side but some degree of a feminine side, too. They're pretty rare, whereas I think women with a masculine side are much less rare. I know I have a fairly strong feminine side. I find myself really distanced from male behavior. You know, you go and play basketball, and it's like, "Fuck you...Eat shit! Wimp!" I can't really identify with that."
Lightnin Hopkins // "People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is."