Glenn Gould // "The trouble begins when we start to be...impressed by the strategies of our systemized thought. And when that happens...all sorts of mechanical failures begin to disrupt the functions of the human personality."
Mirza Masroor Ahmad // “It is surely our duty to care for and respect one another, and the best way to practically demonstrate this esteem is to consider the feelings and sentiments of each other...that is the primary way to establish good human values...it is the only way to develop an environment filled with peace... It should be our goal to establish such high values in every village, every town, every city, every country...and indeed every part of the world.”
Carl Sagan // "In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant...And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. In the last few millennia we have made the most astonishing and unexpected discoveries about the Cosmos and our place within it... They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky."
Jimi Hendrix // Mick Jagger
Steve McQueen // "Everyone deserves not just to survive, but to live."
Margaret Mead // "I was wise enough to never grow up, while fooling people into believing I had."
Louise Nevelson // "The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved."
Rosalind Franklin // "You look at science as...something apart from real life...kept separate from everyday existence. But science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated."
Pablo Picasso // "I always forbade everyone to clean my studios...not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally...It's a layer of protection. When there's dust missing...I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear grey suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace."
Iris Murdoch // "Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free—if we are. Or because we’ve been educated—if we have. But...education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us...the confidence to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers."
Massimo Vignelli // "A personal style is like a handwriting—it happens as the byproduct of our way of seeing things, enriched by the experiences of everything around us."
Joseph Beuys // "Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives."