Ayn Rand // "The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours."
Marina Abramovic // "A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room."
Thomas Edison // "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Diana Ross // "Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."
Hunter S. Thompson // "So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
Vincent van Gogh // "I have often neglected my appearance. I admit it, and I also admit that it is "shocking." But look here, lack of money and poverty have something to do with it too, as well as a profound disillusionment, and besides, it is sometimes a good way of ensuring the solitude you need, of concentrating more or less on whatever study you are immersed in."
Sophia Loren // "Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness."
Georgia O'Keeffe // "I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me...shapes and ideas so near to me, so natural to my own way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Michelangelo // "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short...but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Maya Angelou // "Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
Gustav Mahler // "The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star, but to go one's way in life...neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause."
Rene Magritte // "I despise my own past and that of others. I despise resignation, patience, professional heroism and all of the obligatory sentiments. I also despise the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, radio announcers' voices, aerodynamics, the Boy Scouts...the news, and drunks. I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street. I hope for vibrant love, the impossible, the chimerical."