Jorge Luis Borges // "For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't."
Rei Kawakubo // "It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious."
Hermann Hesse // "Sensitive persons find our inartistic manner of existence oppressive and painful, and they withdraw from sight... I believe what we lack is joy...the conception of life as a happy thing, as a festival... But the high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy."
Matthias Schoenaerts // "I do not like talking about effort, because I work with pleasure. I wanted to do it, so it’s not an effort. Even if I put in a lot of work, it is not an effort. It’s love."
Bob Marley // "The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. Why should I?"
Robert Mapplethorpe // "I’m looking for the unexpected. I’m looking for things I’ve never seen before."
Albert Einstein // "Although I am typically a loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those whose strive for truth, beauty and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
Jim Henson // "The most sophisticated people I know...inside they are all children."
Anne Frank // "What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again."
Stephen Fry // "We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing...an actor, a writer...I am a person who does things...I write, I act...and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."
Elon Musk // "I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
Zadie Smith // "If novelists know anything it’s that individual citizens are internally plural: they have within them the full range of behavioral possibilities. They are like complex musical scores from which certain melodies can be teased out and others ignored or suppressed, depending, at least in part, on who is doing the conducting. At this moment, all over the world—and most recently in America—the conductors standing in front of this human orchestra have only the meanest and most banal melodies in mind... But there is no place on earth where they have not been played at one time or another. Those of us who remember...a finer music must try now to play it, and encourage others, if we can, to sing along."