Maya Angelou // "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
Bridget Riley // "I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw...that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling...the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more...other things may find that they can come through."
Dan Winters // "I usually like to strip things down to basics...simplicity and removing variables leaves you with only your sensibility and your voice...great work is deceptively simple."
Dalai Lama // "We don't need more money, we don't need greater success or fame, we don't need the perfect body or even the perfect mate. Right now, at this very moment, we have a mind...which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness."
Bertrand Russell // "For the first time in human history, it is now possible...to create a world where everybody shall have a reasonable chance of happiness. Physical evil can, if we choose, be reduced to very small proportions. It would be possible...to feed and house the whole population of the world, not luxuriously, but sufficiently to prevent great suffering. It would be possible to combat disease, and to make chronic ill-health very rare... Science will have to be the chief ingredient. Without physics and physiology and psychology, we cannot build the new world."
Yohji Yamamoto // "Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find yourself."
Albert Einstein on Niels Bohr // "He is a very sensitive fellow and goes about this world as if hypnotized."
Anais Nin // "I don't really want to become normal, average, standard... I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
Stéphane 'Charb' Charbonnier // "If we worried about the consequences of each of our drawings...then we would have had to close shop a long time ago... I do this because it's our job to draw about actuality." #charliehebdo
Diana Ross // "....I do like glamour, I don't like mediocrity or sloppiness."
Gordon Parks // "I have for a long time, worked under the premise that everyone is worth something; that every life is valuable to our own existence. Consequently, I've felt it was my camera's responsibility to shed light on any condition that hinders growth or warps the spirit..."
Joe Strummer // "We are not particularly talented, we try harder...we give it all we got...that's all, it's as simple as that. You 'gotta give it all you got, or forget it."