John Lennon // "The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets."
Yohji Yamamoto // "I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."
Christopher Doyle // "Art is what artists make. So the process is to become an artist, it’s not to make art. And that’s the journey as a person...to get to a point where you are at ease with yourself, where you are open to all the possibilities, and then it will be re-channeled through you as an artist... So the process is actually the process of you. The process is working on yourself."
Sylvia Plath // "Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
Arthur Miller // "I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be...whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot or will not understand or accept. You stumble forward, confused, and you share. If you’re lucky, you learn something."
Margaret Atwood // "I'm waiting for the first lawsuit. I'm waiting, you know, for the lawsuit in which the family of the dead woman sues the state… And I'm also waiting for a lawsuit that says if you force me to have children I cannot afford, you should pay for the whole process. They should pay for my prenatal care. They should pay for my, otherwise, very expensive delivery. You should pay for my health insurance. You should pay for the upkeep of this child after it is born. That's where the concern seems to cut off with these people. Once you take your first breath, it's out the window with you. And, it is really a form of slavery to force women to have children that they cannot afford and then to say that they have to raise them… People have to decide what kind of world they want to live in. Are we in favor of forced childbirth? Because that’s the world that we are going to get if we shut down reproductive rights. Right to life is one way of putting it. Forced childbirth is another way."
Frida Kahlo // "No one is apart from anybody. Nobody struggles on his own. All is everything and one."
Jack Kerouac // "I have the right ideas, but my words are too complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
Bob Marley // "My home is in my head."
Maya Angelou // "Find a beautiful piece of art...fall in love...admire it...and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less."
Henri Matisse // "Everything that we see in our daily lives is more or less distorted by acquired habits… The effort to see things without distortion demands a kind of courage; and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he were seeing it for the first time."
Carl Jung // "The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble... They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person’s horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency."