Charlie Chaplin // "Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing... Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it."
Rick Rubin // "I have a theory: What seems in balance to us, whether aurally or visually, comes from a distant, primal memory of something in nature. When something rings true, it's because it harkens back to some truth in the universe. You just know it when it happens. With artists, you can see it happen. A band will be playing and something starts happening and everyone starts looking at each other in a certain way. It's by no means an exact science. It's just a feeling that is."
Johnny Depp // "My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."
Marc Jacobs // "No one ever said 'no' to me about anything. No one ever told me anything was wrong. Never. No one ever said, 'You can't be a fashion designer.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap dancing lessons.' No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't have long hair.'"
Kanye West // "Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what's right and wrong that it's almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It's like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good...before somebody tells you you shouldn't like pink because that's for girls, or you instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you."
Albert Einstein // "Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous."
Sophia Loren // "Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough."
Ayrton Senna // "I'm very privileged. I've always had a very good life. But everything that I've gotten out of life was obtained through dedication and a tremendous desire to achieve my goals...a great desire for victory...meaning victory in life, not as a driver. To all of you who have experienced this or are searching now, let me say that whoever you may be in your life, whether you're at the highest or most modest level, you must show great strength and determination and do everything with love... One day, you'll achieve your aim..."
Wolfgang Mozart // "All I insist...is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak...and speak in such a way that people will remember it."
Andrei Tarkovsky // "What nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided...no other love exists...in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love."
Vincent van Gogh // "If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning."
Thelonious Monk // "The only cats that are worth anything are the cats that take chances."