Heath Ledger // "Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one asks you if you are happy."
Julie Delpy // "If there's any kind of magic in this world...it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something."
Lillian Hellman // "I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
James Baldwin // “It is not true that people become liars without knowing it. A liar always knows he is lying, and that is why liars travel in packs: in order to be reassured that the judgement day will never come for them. They need each other for the well-being, the health, the perpetuation of their lie. They have a tacit agreement to guard each other’s secrets, for they have the same secret. That is why all liars are cruel and filthy minded—one’s merely got to listen to their dirty jokes, to what they think is funny, which is also what they think is real.”
Albert Camus // "Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."
Alvin Toffler // "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
Ingrid Bergman // "Be yourself. The world worships the original."
Jean-Paul Sartre // "You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination."
Gil Scott-Heron // "The revolution that goes on in your head, nobody will ever see that."
Oscar Wilde // "A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want."
Jimi Hendrix // "I just hate to be in one corner...I like to move around."
James Nachtwey // "There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe that war will cease to exist in the future. As man has become increasingly civilized, his means of destroying his fellow man have become ever more efficient, cruel and devastating... Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behaviour which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me. For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war and if it is used well it can be a powerful ingredient in the antidote to war... It has occurred to me that if everyone could be there just once to see for themselves...what unspeakable pain is caused by the impact of a single bullet or how a jagged piece of shrapnel can rip someone's leg off...if everyone could be there to see for themselves the fear and the grief, just one time, then they would understand that nothing is worth letting things get to the point where that happens to even one person, let alone thousands. But everyone cannot be there, and that is why photographers go there...to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they are doing and pay attention to what is going on...to create pictures powerful enough to overcome the diluting effects of the mass media and shake people out of their indifference...to protest and by the strength of that protest to make others protest."