Inspiration
Collected by Paul Ashley
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.� Leonardo Da Vinci
“Trust me, it’s paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for, ‘cause it’s not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something, and if you find that moment… it lasts forever…” richard | the beach
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life”
Winston Churchill
“Architects are pretty much highclass whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we’ve both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.”
Philip Johnson
“If you’re digging a whole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn’t help anything.”
Seymour Chwast
“When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”
C.S. Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia
“As the world becomes more crowded and resources limited, we must treasure the oases we find and create new ones, no matter how small, with love and care.�
Hideo Sasaki- 1989
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.�
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”
Blanche DuBois | A Streetcar Named Desire
“Never let the tools stop you from doing what you want to do”
Paul Taubman
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
Pablo Picasso
“We’re not doing good, we’re just doing less bad.”
Joshua Prince-Ramus
“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.”
Tom Hanks
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they’re made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns, and lost hopes.” Neil Gaiman
“simple details at moments of high risk�
Brian Wakelin
“The man who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the man who is trying to do it”
unknown
“Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.” unknown
“true social change in architecture begins with insightful programming programming that rethinks the purpose and social objective of individual spaces, as well as their true collective effort on their users and surrounding community� unknown
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary
“No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.” Chuck Palahnuik, Invisible Monsters
“It’s been said that seeing is believing. But the fact is, we all have our blind spots. Sometimes we recognize them ourselves. Sometimes others recognize them for us. Distance has a way of distorting the things we see. But what appears as an obstacle may in fact be an opportunity. The trick is having enough faith to carry through.” Everwood, 2002 - 2006
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
Louis L’Amour
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.�
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality. And then there are those who turn one into the other.�
unknown
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.�
Carl Sagan
“only those who go too far know how far they can go”
unknown
“I’m only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot – and they’re so convinced that they matter.”
Cedric Price
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.�
Jodi Picoult
“One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.�
Mother Meera
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” Jack Kerouac
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.�
Andy Warhol
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl
“Man, there’s another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I’m interested in”
Frank Gehry
“cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears�
Italo Calvino
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible�
unknown
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
Wernher Von Braun
“I have been intoxicated more than once, my passions have never been far off insanity, and I have no regrets: because I have come to realize, in my own way, that people have always felt a need to decry the extraordinary men who accomplish great things, things that seemed impossible, as intoxicated and insane.�
Goethe
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
Nora Roberts
“have no fear of perfection. you’ll never reach it”
Salvador Dalí
“Architecture is not buildings. There’s buildings, and then there’s buildings+, architecture is the +.”
Will Alsop
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself ”
Salvador Dalí
“Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.�
unknown
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.�
Friedrich Nietsche
“Nurturing your art skills is like taking care of a plant. It doesn’t matter how beautifully it’d bloomed ten years ago, if you don’t take care of it constantly. it will eventually fade and die.”
Bobby Chiu
“You only have one life to do whatever you want with. In 100 years; nobody will remember the stupid mistakes you made. So make a fool of yourself while you have the time.�
unknown
“stop waiting for things to happen. go out and make them happen�
unknown
“The first moment you hesitate, you better ask yourself why.�
Jamie Lidell
“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.�
Anais Nin
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counter intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.” Carl Sagan
“Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.� unknown
“the universe works on a math equation that never ever even really ends in the end�
unknown
“simplicity is not the goal. it is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations�
Paul Rand
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real”
Marc Jacobs
“Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without. If you don’t start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say, find someone you can love like crazy and who’ll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart. I’m not hearing any heart. Run the risk, if you get hurt, you’ll come back. Because, the truth is there is no sense in living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in lovewell, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try. Because if you haven’t tried, you haven’t lived.” William Parish | Meet Joe Black
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.�
Sylvia Plath
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets�
Marilyn Monroe
“Crazy people can often be very charismatic”
David Mazzucchelli | Asterios Polyp
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs
“Putting your wishes out into the universe is the first step in making them come true
Debbie Macomber
“One should never turn one’s back on a vivid imagination”
Lorrie Moore | Birds of Americ
“Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy�
Nora Ephron
“The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe�
Napoleon Hill
“I feel sorry for people that don’t drink… when they wake up in the morning, that’s the best they feel all day”
Frank Sinatra
“Nobody dies a virgin, life fucks us all.”
Kurt Cobain
“the question is not whether we will die, but how we will live�
unknown
“too many people go through life running from something that isn’t after them”
unknown
“some people never go crazy. what terrible lives they must lead�
Charles Bukowski
“When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don’t waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies. The mentality of Las Vegas is so grossly atavistic that a really massive crime often slips by unrecognized.” Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
“Sometimes people having breakdown problems can look very beautiful because they have that fragile something to the way they move or walk. They put on a mood that makes them more beautiful.� Andy Warhol
“I believe in love, lust, sex and romance. I don´t want everything to add up to the perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy… with me. I want to feel passion and heat and madness. I want it all.”
unknown
“We must become the change we want to see.�
Mahatma Gandhi
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless�
Jamie Paolinetti
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only tangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies, that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People… well, they die, but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on forever” Chuck Palahniuk
“If you can imagine it you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it�
William Arthur Ward
“It’s hard to fail, but worse never to have tried to succeed”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Consider nothing as impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities�
unknown
“Time doesn’t exist. Clocks exist.”
unknown
“Imagination is the best way to say ‘fuck you’ to reality”
unknown
“Anyone who lives within their means, suffers from a serious lack of imagination”
Oscar Wilde
“I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars”
MGMT
“I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams�
Vincent van Gogh
“There is no separation between the fallen and the stars. The broken is the beautiful�
unknown
“What I mean by ‘line’ is exactly that: a single mark, short or long, drawn with a pen, pencil, stylus, or any sharply pointed instrument that is held in the hand and commanded by it, in coordination with the brain, to inscribe on paper, tablet, plate, or any chosen surface exactly that mark and not another. This last qualification is important. When rubbing a piece of charcoal, pastel, or blunt pencil on a surface, one accepts (even hopes for) a certain degree of approximation, even of accident. The resulting tone is, from an analytical point of view, vague, when compared with line. Line is precise and unequivocal. It is here, not there. Making a line is not about accidents.” Lebbeus Woods
“A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk�
Oswald Mosley
“I like living, breathing, better than working… my art [is] that of living; each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It’s a sort of constant euphoria” Marcel Duchamp
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months overanalyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on” Tupac
“Break the monotony. Do something strange and extravagant�
unknown
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
Lao Tzu
“you’ll never untangle the circumstances that brought you to this moment”
Leonard Cohen
“If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.”
Angelina Jolie
“True art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.”
Ludwig Van Beethoven
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better�
Samuel Beckett
“it’s not what you look at, it’s what you see”
unknown
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it�
Terry Pratchett
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
Thoreau
“The act of rendering is the making of a version of reality,’ he concluded. His final message was simple, but potent: if architects wish to avoid obsolescence, they must reverse the de-politicisation of architecture by the dominance of the beautiful, but meaningless, render. As architects, our aspirations for reality must begin in our drawings.”
Rendering Speculations | Architectural Review
“There’s got to be more to life than chasing a temporary high to satisfy me”
Stacie Orrico | More To Life
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning”
Andy Warhol
“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time�
Orson Welles
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success”
James Cameron
“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly�
unknown
“I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He’s taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.” Chuck Palahniuk
“I think of colors that don’t exist”
unknown
“I am the one that pisses you off on a daily basis and yet you still find yourself crazy in love with me�
unknown
“I travel through paths cleared by dynamite, where sharp angles of rock rise on each side, twisting asphalt is framed by concrete barriers climbing taller and taller following a continuous line, shifting and bending while things outside fall apart.� unknown
“There are soo many people out there who will tell you that you can’t. What you’ve got to do is turn around and say ‘watch me’”
unknown
“I run with scissors, I play with fire, and sometimes I hear voices in my head This is my world. This is where I live�
unknown
“Life is too important to be taken seriously”
Oscar Wilde
“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did”
Mark Twain
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn”
unknown
“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.� DH Lawrence
“the word of reality has its limits. the world of imagination is boundless.�
unknown
“Look famous, be legendary, appear complex, act easy, radiate presence, travel light, seem a dream, prove real.� unknown
“I fantasize about not telling anyone and going off to some random place.. and I’d just disappear and they’d never see me again…”
unknown
“I hope that the context for everything I want in this world collapses in front of me and I will be forced to learn a painful yet very important lesson, or maybe die right before I learn it.�
The Avian Project
“Charlie Kaufman understands how I live my life, and I suppose his own, and I suspect most of us. Faced with the bewildering demands of time, space, emotion, morality, lust, greed, hope, dreams, dreads and faiths, we build compartments in our minds. It is a way of seeming sane.� Roger Ebert
I did something I really, probably shouldn’t have, and I’m kind of regretting it right now… but the thing is, if I hadn’t done it, I’d be regretting that right now.
unknown
“Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth ‘you owe me.’ Look what happens with a little love like that. It lights the whole sky”
Hafiz | a persian poet of the 1300s
“Confuse dreams with reality”
unknown
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.�
Albert Einstein
“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things”
Henry Miller
“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious”
Andrew Wyeth
“The best way to predict the future is to design it.�
Buckminster Fuller
“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine�
Magdalena Abakanowicz
“Art is anything you can get away with”
Andy Warhol
“Life is much more interesting now that I’ve decided I just don’t give a fuck”
unknown
“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion …. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth”
Richard Avedon
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.�
T. S. Eliot
“If you find anyone that produces quality creative content at a similar rate as myself, congratulate them. You see, there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance and I’m not so sure where that line resides.� Dustin Scott Garlow
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without he necessities�
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration�
Thomas A Edison
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change�
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the do’er cares about doing it right, or better”
John Updike
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model�
Vincent van Gogh
“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love�
Louis Kahn
“I have no philosophy, my favorite thing is sitting in the studio�
Arne Jacobsen
“I make art in order to give other people my problems�
Mike Kelly
“The ability to imagine is failing in our society�
Gilles Clement
“We’re not asked to think, to foresee, to dream; we’re asked to copy and consume”
Gilles Clement
“Destroying everything seems the best option�
unknown
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”
Thomas A. Edison
“Me? I’m just confident. It’s my skills that are arrogant”
unknown
“I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, I want what I see and that is all OK with me.�
Itzah C Kret
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time. The ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars […] I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I [have] nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
Jack Kerouac
“I’m astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing; it should inhibit me from even beginning. But I get distracted and start doing something. What I achieve is not the product of an act of my will but of my will’s surrender. I begin because I don’t have the strength to think; I finish because I don’t have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.”
Text 152 of Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
“See[]: we all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand” Robert McCammon, Boy’s Life
See, I’m an enigma and just when you think you’ve got me figured out, I do something shocking and outrageous. It just makes you all the more interested in me.
unknown
“I love that I don’t have control over the watercolor most of the time”
Hannah Stouffer
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.�
Ghandi
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star�
Friedrich Nietasche
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going�
unknown
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”
Albert Einstein
“architecture means transformation, organizing the mutation of what is already there… it means to prolong lived history and its traces of past lives, listening to the breathing of a living place, to its pulsations, interpreting its rhythms in order to create” Jean Nouvel
“For there are only two worlds‌your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative, provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power, provide refuge and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.â€?
Neil Gaiman
“When you’re at that point, when you feel it’s all pointless… It’s not. The trick is to just keep doing it, that’s how you succeed in the end. It’s the secret to life, do anything often enough, and for long enough, and you get good at it. So keep on. Keep writing. Keep painting. Keep singing. Keep dancing. Keep fighting. Keep. On.”
unknown
“I think that one of these days, you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.”
Catcher In the Rye by J.D. Salinger
“They ought to have been perched on jagged lava cliffs having their hearts ripped out as sacrifices to the gods.�
Douglas Coupland | Eleanor Rigby
“I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.”
Salvador Dali
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
The Alchemist
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’ve gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each “I,” every one of the now-six-hundred-millionplus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world.”
Sam and the Tigers
“The clouds themselves are moving to reveal enormous cavities of sky. They peel the morning like a fruit.�
Lawrence Durell | Justine
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again, since it’s life.�
William Faulkner
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known”
Chuck Palahniuk | Invisible Monsters
“the only life worth living, is the one you’re really passionate about”
unknown
“Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
Nicolas Sparks
“it is not always best for drawings to be accurate: better sometimes for them to insert moments of a dream or a diversion into the otherise commonplace procedure of describing and organizing.�
Peter Cook | The Motive Force Of Architecture
“This is your life. It’s the only one you get. So no excuses and no do-overs.”
Ann Richards
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.� Robert Fulgham
“Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself… “How did I get through all of that?” unknown
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.�
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”
Mary Kay Ash
“I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life�
Corazon Aquino
“I feel more comfortable talking to strangers than people I know. I believe this is because chances are, I’ll never see them ever again. And I feel like I can say anything I want. They don’t know my past or what I’ve done. They can only judge me on who they are seeing right that second. I’m the person I am now, not then. People I know don’t see the difference.”
unknown
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all�
Helen Keller
“In life, we do things. Some, we wish we had never done and some we wish we could replay a million times. They make us who we are and, in the end, they shape and detail us. If we were to reserve them, we wouldn’t be the person we are today. So, just live. Make mistakes and have wonderful memories. But, never second guess who you are, where you’ve been and, most importantly, where you’re going.”
unknown
“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you”
Brian Tracey
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.�
Oscar Wilde
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.� Robert Fulghum
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way.�
Pablo Neruda | 100 Love Sonnets
“I fear I am a delusional fool in all the things to do with the heart. But never mind. At least she flirts with me occasionally. It’s all I really need. For my imagination vivid-as-it-is fills in all the gaps.” unknown
“today was great. I’m still smiling”
unknown
“in the echo of the forsaken valley, beyond the hillside of a thousand whispers, lis the innocent cataclysm where change is stagnant, perception decentuates the surreal, for you cannot envision the passing of your own illusion.� unknown
“Picasso constantly renewed himself, and that’s what concerns me. The greatest challenge is to live this profession like an artist. You have to be ready to make the leap of death and surprise everyone and yourself. Your work has to be in constant evolution” Santiago Calatrava
“I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me. I see what I want, and want what I see, and that is Ok with me�
Itzah C Kret
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…”
Marie Beyon Ray
“I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive”
Anne Wilson Schaef
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H. Jackson Brown
“Some people dream of success, others make it happen�
unknown
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.�
Oscar Wilde
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.�
Albert Einstein
“beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin�
unknown
“You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind�
unknown
“You have to do the stuff that average people don’t understand because are the only good things”
Andy Warhol
“If you learn a particular skill you feel obliged to use it: skill based teaching (training) inhibits creative thinking. (Skills are necessary to the creative process, but they will be learned when they are needed, and then they may lead to further discover, and form the basis of another level of creativity)� Will Alsop
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!”
Audrey Hepburn
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all�
Oscar Wilde
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
Anais Nin
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
Woody Allen
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Paul Coelho
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative”
Woody Allen
“I live in the clouds. Reality is not for me. People say I should come down. That the clouds are not a place for grownups to be. I smile at them. Maybe one day, I say maybe one day I will come down. But I never will. Reality is not for me. I shall stay up here forever. The view is quite breathtaking.� unknown
“it’s better to say too much, than not to say what you need to say”
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“Replace the fear of the unknown with curiosity.”
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“do one thing everyday that scares you”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nevertheless, there does exist this thing called ARCHITECTURE, an admirable thing, the loveliest of all. A product of happy peoples, and a thing which produces happy peoples� Le Corbusier
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
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“Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent…”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Take chances, take lots of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with every choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel, always. Be you, and be okay with it.� unknown
“If you want something, don’t wish for it. Life is too short to wait.”
Stephen Hines
“In 20 years, you will be more disappointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.”
Mark Twain
“You have to do the stuff that average people don’t understand because are the only good things”
Andy Warhol
“You never leave someone behind, you take a part of them with you and leave a part of yourself behind�
unknown
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
Joan Miró
“The truth is, life is rarely exactly the way we want it to be, and other people often don’t act as we would like them to. Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like and others that we don’t. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people who do things differently, and things that don’t work out. If you fight against the principle of life, you’ll spend most of your life fighting battles.”
Richard Carlson
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
Anais Nin
“You have to systematically create confusion - it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.�
Salvador Dali
“I am basically unclassifiable”
Will Alsop
“Take chances, take a lot of them. Because honestly, no matter where you end up and with whom, it always ends up just the way it should be. Your mistakes make you who you are. You learn and grow with each choice you make. Everything is worth it. Say how you feel, always. Be you, and be okay with it.� unknown
It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.�
Million Dollar Baby
“I am using my imagination to capture the psychology of a segmented reality. These realities which are deposited into our subconscious everyday are the basis for a dialogue that goes mostly unnoticed. Once these “segmented realities” or images are transferred and converted into paintings they become a “memory document” , a sort of time capsule for my experience in history”
José Parlá
“Take a detour, a glimpse of something strange and new. Somewhere where anything can happen.�
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“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world [‌] to enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic - in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.â€? Anais Nin
“I see images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes, they call me on and on across then universe�
The Beatles | Across The Universe
“… day dream delusions, sweet cakes and milkshakes, fantasy parade. Lodged in life, branches like a river, caught in a currant, that’s how it could be…”
Street Poet | Before Sunrise
“Sometimes being totally fucked can be a liberating experience.�
Happiness | The Air I Breathe
“I am looking for a whisper of a thrill, because there is no sense in living life without it.�
Meet Joe Black
“The best thing about dreams is that one fleeting moment; when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment, you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” unknown