In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.
Frank OceanMickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt DisneyIn the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
Terry PratchettWriting and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.
Ernest HemingwayWhat’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
Kamala HarrisOne should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar WildeThe day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
Albert CamusLanguage ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George OrwellIt takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon HillThere is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
Martin LutherYou cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
Pope FrancisTo be more childlike, you don’t have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
Wayne DyerI seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas AdamsAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinIt is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
John RuskinNo great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. LewisI’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
Madeleine AlbrightI change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
Bob DylanModern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert FrostUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareArt is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.
Lady GagaImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard ShawFor my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent Van GoghWhen I start to write, I don’t have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki MurakamiIn other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan WattsI thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt CobainMany are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.
Leonardo da VinciAmerica is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
Will RogersThe community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.
Mark ZuckerbergFor me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor SwiftLanguage is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam ChomskyLife’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
Joel OsteenWhat’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.
Alice WalkerMy inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince – for the vocals, anyway.
The WeekndThe world, we are told, was made especially for man – a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God’s universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.
John MuirThe government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamEating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston ChurchillThe sun is gone, but I have a light.
Kurt CobainWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinSomeone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren BuffettWhen I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.
Angelina JolieI always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.
Steven WrightNay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Henry David ThoreauFor years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
Stephen HawkingThe best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma GandhiThe problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. SeussWhat I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
Barack ObamaBefore we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.
Stephen HawkingMusic will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Dave GrohlWe have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Jeff BezosI no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
Bob MarleyIn my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
Haruki MurakamiMan was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
Mark TwainNext to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin LutherIf you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. WashingtonI never look at my watch when I’m sketching!
Karl LagerfeldThe true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che GuevaraThe gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.
Paulo CoelhoIf you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton