Colette // "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
Martin Luther King Jr. // "There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that... And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world's ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history... And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind... Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing... I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man's problems and the real cause of the world's ills today. If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men. The trouble isn't so much that we don't know enough, but it's as if we aren't good enough. The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live... The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem. The real problem is that through our scientific genius we've made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we've failed to make of it a brotherhood."
Björk // "I don't feed so much off competition. Union is definitely more interesting to me. No two people are ever going to be the same but I am curious about which aspects of two characters overlap...where the merge occurs. Sometimes physical, sometimes musical, sometimes ideological, sometimes spiritual; sometimes a mix of all of the above."
Jane Goodall // "I want to wander in the wild."
Gael Garcia Bernal // "It is the great adventure in life: circulating, finding each other, meeting by accident on the road."
David Hockney // "I draw flowers everyday on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning."
Patti Smith // "I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical...I just knew it."
Bill Murray // "People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise."
Yoko Ono // "Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be."
Susan Sontag // "The vast majority of people, those who could not afford to have a portrait painted, had no record of what they looked like as children. Today, we all have photographs in which we can see ourselves at age six... We have similar information about our parents and grandparents... They make you realize that these people really were children once. To be able to see oneself and one's parents as children is an experience unique to our time. The camera has brought people a new...relation to themselves, to their physical appearance, to aging, to their own mortality."
Miles Davis // "It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance."
Emma Gonzalez // "I have talked so much in the past few days that sometimes I feel like I might have used up all my words and I’ll never speak again... We are children who are being expected to act like adults, while the adults are proving themselves to behave like children."