Chungking Map Quotes

#1. I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

Tom Wesselmann

#2. Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. 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

#4. You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

Lena Dunham

#5. There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you ... Somebody loves you.

Ben Sherwood

#6. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.

Paulo Coelho