“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”

— Andy Warhol

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American artist 1928–1987

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

“I’m very happy with my life and I wouldn’t take back any mistake I’ve made because it’s made me who I am today. I don’t walk around pretending that I’m perfect, so I don’t think that anyone else should hold me to that and not expect me to fuck up occasionally. Because I do, and you do, too.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

Source: THE LITTLEST REBEL: NICOLE RICHIE http://www.nylonmag.com/?parid=260&section=article Nylon, August 2007. (March 6, 2008)

“Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.”

Samuel R. Delany book They Fly at Çiron

Source: They Fly at Çiron (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 96)

“I’m not particularly fond of watching myself act. I think because my roots are in the stage that the joy for me is the act of doing it. The joy for me is not sitting down and watching me do it. I’m so critical of myself. I’d sit and watch myself in a scene, maybe one in which I’m just in the background, and think, “What are you doing back there, Rene? Why are you doing that? Why didn’t you just stand still? Shut up. What’s the matter with you?””

René Auberjonois

Catching Up with DS9’s Rene Auberjonois http://www.startrek.com/article/catching-up-with-ds9undefineds-rene-auberjonois-part-1 (June 7, 2011)

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

As quoted in The Federal Career Service: A Look Ahead (1954)
1950s
Variant: Now I think, speaking roughly, by leadership we mean the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.

“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”

Nam June Paik (1932–2006) American video art pioneer

In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
1970s

“I spend countless minutes thinking of you
Wondering if you love me too, why am I sure you do?
I’m just so sure you do
The spark in your eyes took over my mind
And there’s nothing I can do, not run nor hide
I surrender, surrender to your charm
There is nothing that I won’t do for you”

Zhiar Ali (1999) Kurdish human rights activist and artist

Addicted To Your Love https://genius.com/Zhiar-ali-addicted-to-your-love-lyrics, 2018
Song lyrics

“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Because I know the biggest crime
Is just to throw up your hands
And say "This has nothing to do with me,
I just want to live as comfortably as I can.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Willing to Fight
Song lyrics

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