Quotes & Words

Creation+inspiration

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just, literally, 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.

We Bought a Zoo, 2011.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Si no eres un desposeído, ¿para qué hacer arte? Si no te sientes rechazado y todo eso, es probable que te sientas un poco más satisfecho y no tengas esta necesidad de salvar tu vida haciendo algo.

Mike Mills. Beautiful Losers, 2008.

El clic del obturador guillotina el tiempo, congela el gesto, fosiliza el cuerpo.

Joan Fontcuberta. La cámara de Pandora. Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2010.

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

Anita Koddick

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon

When it all goes quiet behind my eyes, I see everything that made me flying around in invisible pieces. When I look too hard, it goes away. And when it all goes quiet, I see they are right here. I see that I’m a little piece in a big, big universe. And that makes things right.

Beasts of the Southern Wild, 2012.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

I think people understand the music and the lyrics are only expressing what is already there.

Sigur Rós

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only thing to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

Jim Jarmusch

Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

Austin Kleon. Steal like an artist.

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe

There is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:9

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

André Gide