NITCH

Photo of Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall // “I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.”

Photo of Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton // "I don't really look like people in films; I look like people in paintings."

Photo of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein // "When we survey our lives...we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings... We eat food that others have grown, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been communicated to us by other people through...language which others have created. Without language our mental capacities would be poor indeed... The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has, not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society..."

Photo of Kim Novak

Kim Novak // "You can talk about life...or you can live it."

Photo of Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy // "I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general...to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves."

Photo of David Bowie

David Bowie // “Maybe I’m insane...but I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.”

Photo of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl // "I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out...when someone smiles at you but the eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony."

Photo of Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad // "My task is to make you hear, to make you feel, and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything."

Photo of Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama // "Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions."

Photo of Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen // "I design clothes because I don't want women to look all innocent and naive. I want women to look stronger. I don't like women to be taken advantage of. I don't like men whistling at women in the street. I think they deserve more respect. I like men to keep their distance from women, I like men to be stunned by an entrance...I want people to be afraid of the women I dress."

Photo of Björk

Björk // “Create a paradise anywhere you go.”

Photo of Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski // "Your life is your life. Don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the watch. There are ways out. There is light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. Be on the watch. The gods will offer you chances. Know them. Take them. You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it. You are marvelous. The gods wait to delight in you."