Hayao Miyazaki // “When I say ‘hero,’ do not picture someone with the strength to fight and conquer evil — because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans. But while it can’t be defeated...it can be controlled. In order to control it, and live the life of a true hero, you must learn to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
Joseph Beuys // “Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”
Frida Kahlo // "Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
Frank Lloyd Wright // "Culture is what this country needs. Culture brings something from within outwards. Education takes something and tries to stick it on from the outside. Education tries to tell you, culture shows you."
Chuck Palahniuk // “People don’t want to solve their problems or their dramas. Because they are also their distractions. If you fix all your mess all you have left is the big, scary unknown.”
Andy Warhol // “I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’ because I think that just being alive is so much work...People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
Erykah Badu // "I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
Willem Dafoe // “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
Oscar Wilde // "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"
Tom Waits // “I don’t think comfort is good...It’s good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can’t see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day...and someone says, ‘What happened to your hand?’ And you don’t even know.”
George Carlin // "Now, there's one thing you might have noticed I don't complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here..."
Joan Crawford // "Send me flowers while I’m alive. They won’t do me a damn bit of good after I’m dead."
