Keith Richards // "I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: Do you know this feeling?"
Glenn Gould // "I can be alone anywhere."
Zadie Smith // "The idea we're given of reading...is that I should sit here and I should be entertained. And the more classical model that has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician sits at a piano, has a piece of music which is the work made by somebody they don't know, who they probably couldn't comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you... It takes all kinds of sensitivities...all kinds of different qualities to understand what is going on in that book, not just on the superficial level, its plot and character, but what it believes... And the complexity of that is a real education of the emotions and of the heart; and it's very hard to get that education elsewhere. Those procedures are vital. They're really important to becoming a human being. Becoming a human being isn't just something you get with your birth, it's an exercise and it takes your whole life."
Aldous Huxley // "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Abraham Maslow // "When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love and self-esteem."
Bob Dylan // "Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
Vincent Cassel // "You can't escape from what you are."
Lucian Freud // "The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh."
Vincent Van Gogh // "When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
Kurt Vonnegut // "I love you sons of bitches... You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage, and not a short one, either, but one that’ll last for billions of years. You’re the only ones with guts enough to really care about the future, who really notice what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do to us, what big, simple ideas do to us, what tremendous misunderstanding, mistakes, accidents, catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell."
Rei Kawakubo // "Whatever you think I am, that's what I'm not."
Salvador Dali // "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams."