"No one is in your life by mistake."

“Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.”

Source : "Einstein at the Beach: The Hidden Relationship Between Risk and Creativity" by Steven Kotler, www.forbes.com. October 11, 2012.

“Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.”

“A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.”

“As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.”

“I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal." Right now I'm very into chic, classy looks. Chanel is one of my favorite brands; they really capture what a classic woman is.”

“I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.”

“He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of