We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.
A SWEET disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness : A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction : An erring lace which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher : A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbons to flow confusedly : A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticoat : A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility : Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese.
It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.