Diana Vreeland // "I think when you're young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together."
John F. Kennedy // "If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."
Gloria Steinem // "Once we give up searching for approval, we often find it easier to earn respect."
Jeremy Irons // "What a camera likes are eyes which have life and a story to tell."
Jorge Luis Borges // "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
Miles Davis // "Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself."
Xavier Dolan // "I love everything about people: the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they cry, the way their mouth is distorted whenever they do this or say that. It's always been a passion for me to observe."
Keith Haring // "No matter how long you work, it’s always going to end sometime. And there’s always going to be things left undone. And it wouldn’t matter if you lived until you were seventy-five. There would still be new ideas. There would still be things that you wished you would have accomplished. You could work for several lifetimes….Part of the reason that I’m not having trouble facing the reality of death is that it’s not a limitation, in a way. It could have happened any time, and it is going to happen sometime. If you live your life according to that, death is irrelevant. Everything I’m doing right now is exactly what I want to do."
Patti Smith // "Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
Buckminster Fuller // "We must do away with the...notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery...so we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."
Anais Nin // "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are."
Whitney Houston // "You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you."