"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." 


(Oscar Wilde) 

"Those who follow are always behind." 


~ A Y Jackson

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone...Whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something." 


- Sandra Day O'Connor

‎"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." 

~ Joseph Campbell

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."

~ E. B. White

"To copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

(Pablo Picasso)

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

(Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887)

"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know."

-- Joseph Conrad

"Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort."

~ from Bruce Mau Design's "Incomplete Manifesto"

"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey to foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)