| "The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar." Tom Ford |
| "I paint flowers so they will not die." Frida Kahlo |
| "Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is." Jackson Pollock |
| "Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before." Franz Kafka |
| "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." Francoise Sagan |
| "Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love." Athol Fugard |
| "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced." Leo Tolstoy |
| "Cinema is magic in the service of dreams." Djibril Diop Mambety |
| "Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him." Chinua Achebe |
| "So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well." Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| "Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you." Wim Wenders |
| "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| "I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away." Heath Ledger |
| "All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice." Josephine Baker |
| "A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people." Bessie Head |
| "The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this." Chinua Achebe |
| "Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact." Athol Fugard |
| "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is." Nadine Gordimer |
| "I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write." David Bowie |
| "I don't listen to people who say my dreams are impossible; I just work to prove them wrong." Liya Kebede |
| "People create stories create people or rather stories create people create stories." Chinua Achebe |
| "You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them." David Attenborough |
| "Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink." Leo Burnett |
| "Satire is a lesson, parody is a game." Vladimir Nabokov |
| "Do you realise if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?" Al Boliska |
| "Nothing can be done except little by little." Charles Baudelaire |
| "I think you achieve a lot more through love than negativity." Alexa Chung |
| "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." Pele |
| "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." Maya Angelou |
| "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." Napoleon Hill |
