Charles Eames // "Take your pleasure seriously."
Buckminster Fuller // "We must do away with the...notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery...so we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
James Dean // "An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art."
David Hockney // "I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money. I’m greedy for an exciting life."
Hunter S. Thompson // "You won't find reasonable men at the tops of tall mountains."
Frida Kahlo // "You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people...who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts."
William S. Burroughs // "Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence...emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink."
Carson McCullers // "I seem strange to you, but anyway I am alive."
Robby Muller // "It’s especially important to realize what really matters, to do only what really is worth doing."
Georgia O’Keeffe // "I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."
Ernest Hemingway // "You must be prepared to work always without applause."
Philippe Petit // "Believe marvels exist around you, inside others, within yourself. Go search for them."