Leonor Fini // "I always imagined that I would have a life very different than the one imagined for me, but I understood from a very early age that I would have to revolt in order to make that life."
Joseph Campbell // "If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's."
Nick Cave // "The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love...just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil."
Werner Herzog // "We have understood that the destruction of the environment is an enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs."
Hayao Miyazaki // "I can’t just sit at my desk. Ideas come from the unexpected."
Haruki Murakami // "We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases."
Albert Einstein // "Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens… Therefore it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analysing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend, and how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. Thus their excessive authority will be broken."
Henri Matisse // "Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out."
Henry Miller (& Anais Nin) // "When I see you, all I wanted to say vanishes. The time is so precious and words are extraneous… You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me."
Anais Nin // "I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
Carl Jung // "When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow."
Paul Cezanne // "Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know."