Joni Mitchell // "The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel."
David Lynch // "Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole."
Leo Tolstoy // "Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
Richard Avedon // "How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable...and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people."
Al Pacino // "There's no such thing as too far. You understand? You push everything as far as you can. You push and you push and you push until it starts pushing back. And then you push some goddamn more."
Vincent Van Gogh // "I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'"
Tilda Swinton // "Loneliness is the deal. Loneliness is the last great taboo. If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins...because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true."
Simone de Beauvoir // "Every morning, even before I open my eyes, I know I am in my bedroom and my bed. But...sometimes I wake up with a feeling of childish amazement: why am I myself? What astonishes me...is the fact of finding myself here, and at this moment, deep in this life and not in any other. What stroke of chance has brought this about?"
Andrew Carnegie // "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."
Anne Frank // "As I’ve told you many times, I’m split in two. One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things... This side of me is usually lying in wait to ambush the other one, which is much purer, deeper and finer. No one knows Anne’s better side... My lighter, more superficial side will...always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne...to beat her down, hide her. But it doesn’t work, and I know why. I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will...mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the "lighthearted" Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the "deeper" Anne is too weak... I know exactly how I’d like to be, how I am…on the inside. But unfortunately I’m only like that with myself... I’m guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I’m nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether... I’m trying very hard to change myself, but...I’m always up against a more powerful enemy... if I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then...I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if…if only there were no other people in the world."
Charles Bukowski // "Every person, I suppose, has their eccentricities but in an effort to be normal in the world's eye they overcome them and therefore destroy their special calling. I have kept mine and I do believe that they have lent generously to my existence."
Ludovico Einaudi // "I like to be overwhelmed by work that I do. I like to be emotional...and it's only when I get to this that I really enjoy the moment."