Ansel Adams // "The whole world, to me, is very much 'alive'— all of the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life...the things going on within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood."
Maria Callas // "Do not talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddamn rules."
Marilyn Monroe // "Beneath the makeup and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world."
Arvo Pärt // "I had to get rid of everything unnecessary...in order to save myself."
Keith Richards // "I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself."
Walker Evans // "Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach."
Thomas Edison // "Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
Billie Holiday // "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling."
Today on Nitch.com -- NOTES on Keith Haring // "Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it... and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it."
Ernest Hemingway // "Eschew the monumental. Shun the epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."
Arthur Miller // "I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you."
Marc Chagall // "Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love."