Frida Kahlo // "I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Vincent van Gogh // "What am I in the eyes of most people...a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person...somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then...even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart... Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me."
Muhammad Ali // "Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe."
Ernest Hemingway // "You must be prepared to work always without applause."
Carl Jung // "Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again."
Patti Smith // "That's what artists do, that's what poets do...we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from."
James Baldwin // "I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I'm forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive."
Anthony Bourdain // "Everybody should come here. Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled, and yet at the same time, beautiful and awesome the world can be. Everyone should experience, even as the clouds gather, what's at stake, what could be lost, what's still here."
Bob Dylan // "The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel...someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there...somebody whose life I can feel."
Rainer Maria Rilke // "Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them...the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
Henry Miller // "One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."