Stanley Kubrick // "I've got a particular weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is."
Maya Angelou // "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Johnny Cash // "This morning, with her, having coffee."
Chuck Close // "The advice I like to give...is to not wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself...if you just get to work, something will occur to you."
Jimi Hendrix // "It all has to come from inside."
Walt Whitman // "Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul."
Diana Vreeland // "There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself."
Haruki Murakami // "We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases."
Allen Ginsberg // "To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard."
Anais Nin // "Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you."
Albert Camus // "The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
Jeff Bridges // "My wife, whenever I'd go off to work and I'd be kind of anxious, she'll say, 'Remember, have fun.' Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and there's a lot of joy to be had wherever you are."