quotable: taylor swift

"you're lucky enough to be different from everyone else.
don't change to be the same."

quotable: alice neel

"the minute i sat in front of a canvas i was happy. because it was a world, and i could do what i liked with it."

quotable: marc chagall

"in our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. 
it is the color of love."

quotable: sophie dahl

"as long as a curvy girl is held up as an anomaly, the whole thing is being perpetuated. when a curvy girl is no longer being hailed as different, we've made progress. i could talk about it for hours, but if one objects to very thin, unwell girls being used in advertising, then as a consumer, you have to make a first step. we've become a quite apathetic culture. it's all well to just talk about how horrified you are, but unless you do something and write to companies, then nothing really gets done."

-sophie dahl, on the curvy-model movement.

quotable: jeff koons

"when i view the world, i don't think of my own work. i think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together."

also read: this interesting article

quotable: norma lee browning

"chicago may be a man's town, but it's history is emblazoned with the names of women-- women whose spirit or charm or accomplishments lent an air of splendor to the sprawling lustiness of the city."
--norma lee browning,  chicago tribune, 1948 (a world-traveling lady who avoided the kitchen at all costs.)

http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/2008/04/photo-of-the-18.html

quotable: david arquette

"i don't think that has anything to do with anything. writing articles about people that put on weight is just wasting space for real news. and who really cares? i love round people, i love skinny people. i love people, in general. we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything."

quotable: jason lewis

"maybe i have, you know, a little bit of a following in the bedroom..."

see previous post's vid. also ogle the man candy that is jason lewis.
(p.s. in case you don't know, he's not being overly confident, he was samantha jones' love interest on "sex and the city".)

quotable: giambattista valli

"an actress ought to be an actress, and a fashion designer ought to be a fashion designer. these are their own professions, so everybody ought to concentrate on one thing. i chose, in my life, to be a fashion designer."

-former ungaro art director giambattista valli to fashion week daily on lindsay lohan as ungaro's current  artistic advisor. (***such a train wreck, btw. oy, linds. get thee to rehab...) 

quotable: dan brown

from the lost symbol:

"From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics- the name Jesus has been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus."

quotable: texts from last night

(786): I didn't realize how hung over I was until I rolled over and the world rolled over with me.

quotable: gwenne meara

"No, darling, whatever the end of this may be, I’m going to stick like glue to the hope that we will find happiness yet. I know there’s no certainty, but no one can take our private dreams from us."

love letters between a future husband and wife around the outbreak of world war 2.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article6816190.ece

quotable: fran lebowitz

"paris is a great beauty. as such it possesses all the qualities that one finds in any other great beauty; chic, sexiness, grandeur, arrogance and the absolute inability and refusal to listen to reason."

l-r: jardin du luxembourg; courtyard on rue clovis, i think, maybe; city skyline.

quotable: sophia loren

"everything you see, i owe to spaghetti." sophia loren

^^^this bitch is SEVENTY-FREAKING-TWO!!!

unbelievable. the pirelli calendar. i hope i look that good at her age!!!