Maria Callas // "I don't need the money, dear. I work for art."
Pablo Picasso // "We artists are indestructible; even in a prison...I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell."
Julia Child // "Small helpings, no seconds, no snacking, and a little bit of everything."
Alfred Hitchcock // "Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
Tove Jansson // "I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important."
Paul Bowles // "If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food...they'll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough...something happens."
Jean Cocteau // "A little too much is just enough for me."
Bette Davis // "This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Henry Miller // "This is my world, my stamping ground. I must run free...charging with lowered horns, ripping up the barricades that hem me in and stifle me. I must have room to expand."
Willem de Kooning // "You know the real world...this so-called real world...is something you put up with. Like everybody else. I'm in my element when I am a little bit out of this world."
Mother Teresa // "I used to pray for answers, but now I'm praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things."
Liza Minnelli // John Lennon