"The more opinions you have, the less you see."

"I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one."

"The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanisation and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music."

Bohuslav Martinů (8 Dec. 1890 - 28 Aug. 1959), Czech composer.

"Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

Helen Adams Keller (27 June 1880 - 1 June 1968), American author.

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 - 18 December 2011), Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician.

"... there are three different kinds of revolutionaries: those who want to change things; those who are into the fight but couldn’t care less if things change or not; and those who work following their instinct, responding to a situation in a personal way that can end up having collective results -- and that can affect the world a lot more. That last model is possibly the one I’m interested in most."

Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960), Italian artist based in NYC.

"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best."

Richard Phillips Feynman (11 May 1918 - 15 February 1988), American physicist.

"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes."

Jane Birkin (born 14 December 1946),

English actress, model, singer and film director.

"We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion."

“Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”

"A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it's just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work."

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."

"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."

"Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them."

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813  - 13 February 1883), German composer, primarily known for his operas.

"You can’t apologize your way into people’s hearts... You have to go full force."

Annie Erin Clark (born 28 September 1982), American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who performs under the moniker St. Vincent.

"I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn’t this the day’s best part? You don’t even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself."

Adam Levin (born 1976), American fiction author and teacher.

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, sometimes anglicized as Tully (3 Jan. 106 BC - 7 Dec. 43 BC), Roman philosopher and statesman.

"In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness."

David Foster Wallace (21 Feb. 1962 - 12 Sept. 2008), American author.