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Photo of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway // "We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."

Photo of Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn // "The greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings...I'm a long way from the human being I'd like to be. But I've decided I'm not so bad after all."

Photo of Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe // "I said to myself, 'I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me…shapes and ideas so near to me…so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.' I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."

Photo of Albert Camus

Albert Camus // "A spirit of art and madness lurks incessantly beneath the balconies and behind the drapes. It cannot die, and it prevents all from being lost."

Photo of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski // "We are far too serious, we must learn to juggle our heavens and our hells…the game is playing us, we must play back."

Photo of Björk

Björk // "In my most natural state, I'll be introverted for say, six days in a row, and then on the seventh day I'll become very extroverted... Then I'll have to go back inside myself... It's something I can't really control. It's a bit like the ocean and the tides."

Photo of Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse // "I live in my dreams...that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference."

Photo of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway // "If a writer stops observing, he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed."

Photo of William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs // "If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future."

Photo of Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto // "Creation is lifework, creation is how...you spend your life, you cannot divide life and the creation, it’s impossible. Shut your eyes, close your ears, don’t use your brain, use your heart, your soul."

Salvador Dali // "I enjoy tremendously every single moment of my life because death, all the time, is very close watching me and death might catch me. And every five minutes death don’t catch me, I enjoy tremendously."

Photo of James Dean

James Dean // "Only the gentle are ever really strong."