"I felt the need to create something new, each day, whether it was a painting, interior design, or classical music. You couldn’t do that in fashion - once successful, the business becomes more about production and less about creativity."

~ Lauri Blank

First Kiss of Spring

"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."

~ Sophia Loren

"For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations."

~ Paul Cezanne

"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree."

~ Sidonie Gabrielle

"Since the technology of electronics has become such an important part of modern life, it is inevitable that it be employed in the creation of art."

~ Ben Laposky, 1969

"I've walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesn't necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesn't really tell you what you're looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move."

~ Olafur Eliasson

Photo by Yuriy Pustovoy

"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."

~ Jim Rohn