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- Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
- Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
- Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
- Octavio Paz (1914 - )
- George Bush doesn't care about black people.
- Kanye West, Live comment during a Hurricane Katrina telethon
- You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- What you see is what you get.
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998), Term borrowed by computer engineers abbreviated to WYSIWYG
- Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
- Nickolas Muray
- I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), (on Andre Breton and the European surrealists) letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-16-1939
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