Björk and Karlheinz Stockhausen

Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.

— Bob Dylan

There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

— Jack Kerouac

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Bas Jan Ader | Primary Time | 1974

Don't ask what it means or what it refers to. Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

— Eva Hesse

Richard Long | A line in the Himalayas | 1975

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

— Anaïs Nin

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Wernher von Braun waits for Saturn 1 launch.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, what we are really saying is we've lost our connection to ourselves.

— Andy Goldsworthy

One day I will find the right words and they will be simple.

— Jack Kerouac

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Gerhard Richter at work.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

— Jacques Lacan

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

— Leonard Cohen

She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.

— Nancy Lemann

There is no longer room for irrelevant things. We have no longer got the resources. Irrelevance is out.

— Dieter Rams

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Solaris.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

— Vera Nazarian

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

— Charles Bukowski

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

— Bill Nye