Vincent Cassel // "You can't escape from what you are."
Lucian Freud // "The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh."
Vincent Van Gogh // "When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
Kurt Vonnegut // "I love you sons of bitches... You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."
Rei Kawakubo // "Whatever you think I am, that's what I'm not."
Salvador Dali // "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."
Jeff Buckley // "I have no advice for anybody...except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful...even places you hate."
Cher // "Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great."
Steve Jobs // "I think most people that are able to make a sustained contribution over time, rather than just a peak, are very internally driven. You have to be. Because in the ebb and tide of people's opinions and of fads, there are going to be times when you are criticized, and criticism is very difficult. And so when you're criticized, you learn to pull back a little and listen to your own drummer. And to some extent that isolates you from the praise, if you eventually get it too. The praise becomes a little less important to you and the criticism becomes a little less important to you...and you become more internally driven."
Jimi Hendrix // "I don't like compliments...they distract me."
Marilyn Monroe // “We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.”
George Orwell // "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."