“Because my musical training has been limited, I’ve never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.” / Neil Diamond    more pics →

“A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. / Kurt Huber    more pics →

“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.” / Michelangelo    more pics →

“Democracy’s a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it’s no longer democracy, is it? It’s something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.” / Sam Shapard    more pics →

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” / Ayn Rand    more pics →

“I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, ‘There’s no place like New York. It’s the most exciting city in the world now. That’s the way it is. That’s it.’” / Robert de Niro    more pics →

“Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.” / Max Bill    more pics →

“Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.” / Truman Capote    more pics →

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” / Napoleon Bonaparte    more pics →

“I have a beer belly.” / Christy Turlington.    more pics →

“In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.” / Woody Allen    more pics →

“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. / Martin Scorsese    more pics →

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.” / Henri Cartier-Bresson    more pics →

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” / Henry Ford    more pics →

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” / Andy Warhol    more pics →

“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.” / Le Corbusier    more pics →

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” / Jim Carrey    more pics →

“I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.” / Ferdinand Porsche    more pics →

“You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.” / Paul Auster    more pics →

“I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I’ve done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.” / Vincent Gallo    more pics →

“Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it’s up to you.” / Wim Wenders    more pics →

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe    more pics →

“If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.” / Gustav Mahler    more pics →

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” / Bob Dylan    more pics →

“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” / Woody Allen    more pics →