Robert DeNiro // "There's no right or wrong. There's only good and bad. And 'bad' usually happens when you're trying too hard to do it right. There's a very broad spectrum of things that can inhibit you. The most important thing...is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create, and be free to try anything. To have choices."
Doris Lessing // "Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
David Bowie // "It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives."
Slavoj Zizek // "Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism."
Salvador Dali // "Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali."
Adrien Brody // "How are you to imagine anything if the images are always provided for you? To defend ourselves...we must learn to read. To stimulate our own imagination, to cultivate our own consciousness, our own belief system. We all need these skills to defend, to preserve, our own minds."
Patti Smith // "I know from my own experience that people always thought I was standoffish or not a team player. But it’s just that you have a trajectory. You know what you’re trying to do and you have to shed all of those things that people want you to drag around...that scrutiny is hurtful...the constant bullshit... But in the end, all of that is peripheral. What will remain 20, 30 years from now...all those people and their snarky comments and their projections will be forgotten...but if your work continues to grow and you do great work, that’s what will be remembered. It’s all about work in the end."
Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing...the thing that might be worth saying."
Charles Bukowski // "The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance."
Björk // "I don't feed so much off competition. Union is definitely more interesting to me. No two people are ever going to be the same but I am curious about which aspects of two characters overlap...where the merge occurs. Sometimes physical, sometimes musical, sometimes ideological, sometimes spiritual; sometimes a mix of all of the above."
Michael Caine // "This time, you've got to do something absolutely different from what you've ever done before."
Carl Jung // "Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. Entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again."