It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I carry my scrapbook everywhere with me, it’s like a diary. I put museum tickets, Polaroids, and I draw in it. Mainly fairies. I love fairies.
— Sasha Pivovarova
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
— Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
— Fyodor Dostoevsk
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
— Chuck Palahniuk
For him, sleep is not the opposite of life—sleep is life, and life is a dream. He crosses from dream to dream as if he were crossing from one life to another.
— Milan Kundera, Life is Elsewhere
I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.
— Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
— Peter Lindbergh
Alexander McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. He was a provocateur and a raconteur who told stories through his clothes – stories that might draw from the past or other cultures, but were relevant to the here and now. He had the mind of a poet and the heart of an artist. He was a true romantic, in the Byronic sense of the word, who channeled the sublime.
— Andrew Bolton (Curator, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
I don’t want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in today’s world.
— Raf Simons
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
— Albert Camus
Haider is not interested in just making a look that just hangs on the body or hides it. He’s really interested in the way the woman is going to be moving, her gestures, what kind of life she is going to be living. If he’s about form at all, he’s about form as an expression of spirit.
— Tilda Swinton on Haider Ackermann
It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
— Leo Tolstoy
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