Audrey Hepburn // "I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing...when I couldn't sing, and dance...when I couldn't dance—and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it."
Pablo Picasso // "Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? ...If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree."
Tim Walker // "The way I work, I have to have a mood in my head, a feeling for something, almost like a set of directions, a map of how to get through the day."
Iris Murdoch // "The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. We are intermittent creatures, always falling to little ends and rising to new beginnings."
Brigitte Bardot // "Being loved by everyone means being loved by no one. Love needs controversy. I'm happy and proud to be loved by some people precisely because some others hate me. So those who love me are brave."
Diana Ross // "People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore...I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature."
Princess Diana // "I don’t go by the rule book, I lead from the heart, not the head."
Truman Capote // "Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living."
Annemarie Schwarzenbach // "Perhaps my sense of reality is not very highly developed...I can't always tell memories from dreams, and often I mistake dreams, coming to life again in colours, smells, sudden associations..."
Lou Dorfsman // "Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea."
Marlon Brando // "Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?"
Elton John // Diana Ross // Cher