Lauren Bacall // “I believe in the truth, and I believe in saying what you think. Why not? Do you have to go around whispering all the time or playing a game with people? I just don’t believe in that. So I’m not the most adored person on the face of the earth... There are a lot of people who don’t like me at all, I’m very sure of that. But I wasn’t put on earth to be liked. I have my own reasons for being and my own sense of what is important and what isn’t, and I’m not going to change that.”
Sly Stone // "Different strokes, for different folks."
Julio Cortazar // “What most people call loving consists of picking out a woman and marrying her. They pick her out, I swear, I’ve seen them. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that breaks your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. They probably say that they pick her out because-they-love-her, I think it’s just the opposite...You don’t pick out the rain that will soak you to the bone when you leave a concert.”
Hayao Miyazaki // “When I say ‘hero,’ do not picture someone with the strength to fight and conquer evil — because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans. But while it can’t be defeated...it can be controlled. In order to control it, and live the life of a true hero, you must learn to see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
Joseph Beuys // “Even the act of peeling a potato can be an artistic act if it is consciously done.”
Frida Kahlo // "Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away."
Frank Lloyd Wright // "Culture is what this country needs. Culture brings something from within outwards. Education takes something and tries to stick it on from the outside. Education tries to tell you, culture shows you."
Chuck Palahniuk // “People don’t want to solve their problems or their dramas. Because they are also their distractions. If you fix all your mess all you have left is the big, scary unknown.”
Andy Warhol // “I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ‘work’ because I think that just being alive is so much work...People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
Erykah Badu // "I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
Willem Dafoe // “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.”
Oscar Wilde // "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"