"Pain is not something to be feared; it is something to be understood."

“The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.”

“Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.”

“Because it corresponds to a vital need, love is overvalued in our culture. It becomes a phantom - like success - carrying with it the illusion that it is a solution for all problems.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.287, Routledge

“Passion doesn't come from business or books or even a connection with another person. It is a connection to your own life force, the world around you and the spirit that connects us all. You are the source. Books, work, music, people, sunsets all provide sparks, but only you can light the fire.”

Source : Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

“I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.”

Source : "French connected". Interview with Marianne Gray, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

“To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”

Source : Franz Kline, Fred Mitchell, Albert Boime (1977). “Franz Kline, the Early Works as Signals: Exhibition University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York 14 March-18 April, 1977 and Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York 27 September - 6 November 1977”

“Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.”

“People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along....”