Keith Haring // "Touching people’s lives in a positive way is as close as I can get to an idea of religion. Belief in one’s self is only a mirror of belief in other people and every person."
David Bowie // "Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
Abbas Kiarostami // "I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame."
Mahmoud Darwish // "What have you done to us and what have you done to yourself?"
Leonard Cohen // "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
James Baldwin // "There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There’s more than one would think… If you break faith with what you know, that’s a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that’s enough. Love has never been a popular movement… The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of very few people."
Walt Whitman // "Happiness…not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour."
Agnes Varda // "If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes."
Martha Graham // "There is a vitality, a life force, an energy...that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist... The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open."
Albert Einstein // "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them."
Patti Smith // "That’s what artists do, that’s what poets do...we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we’ve made in order to get to the core place where we started from."
Jean-Luc Godard // "He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch."