"Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet."

Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī),
(30 Sept. 1207 – 17 Dec. 1273), Persian poet, Islamic jurist, theologian, and mystic.

"I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move."

Philippine "Pina" Bausch
(27 July 27, 1940 – 30 June 2009), German modern dance choreographer

"If you practice for 10 years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist—then you may please even God."

Ali Akbar Khan
(14 April 1922 – 18 June 2009), Indian classical maestro

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

William Gibson
(born 17 March 1948), American-Canadian writer.

"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep
(born 22 June, 1949), American actress

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way...things I had no words for."

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe
(15 November 1887 – 6 March 1986), American artist.

"In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don`t ever want me to say 'I'm great'?"

Kanye Omari West (8 June 1977), rapper, producer, author and singer.

"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."

Yves Saint Laurent
(1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), Algerian-born French fashion designer.

"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."

Miles Davis
(26 May 1926 – 28 Sept. 1991), American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

"Architecture is, is a science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history."

Renzo Piano
(born 14 September 1937), world renowned Italian architect.

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

Leonard Cohen (born 21 September 1934),
Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, novelist, and artist.

"All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap."

Dame Helen Mirren
(born 26 July 1945), multi-award-winning English actress.

"Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant."

Chris Martin (born 2 March 1977),
English singer-songwriter and instrumentalist of the band Coldplay.

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

Sylvia Plath
(27 Oct. 1932 – 11 Feb. 1963), American writer, poet, and children's author.

"One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges."

Ron Howard (born 1 March 1954),
Academy Award-winning filmmaker, producer, and actor.