• From a very early age, I remember thinking that adults were always acting like assholes. I couldn't understand why I had to respect them. My pre-school teacher forced me to write right-handed when I was left-handed. I didn't get why I had to change. Nobody could give me a reason. I have had a big problem with authority ever since.
  Jessica Alba Quotes
• Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• Most of the reason I work out now is not for the external - it's for how I feel. I find working out gives me more energy. I started eight days after he (baby) was born.
  Cindy Crawford Quotes
• I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
  Vincent van Gogh Quotes
• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.
  Angelina Jolie Quotes
• An oligarchic system is better than dictatorship and an authoritarian regime. But there's no reason for hope; we still don't live in an oligarchic country. We have been living in a slave-owning state for thousands of years. And we ourselves think there is only one tsar while the rest of us are lackey.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky Quotes
• God blessed me with some great, unique features-some beautiful, in my eyes, and some not so beautiful. But I think we are all created this way for a reason, so I have no desire to tamper with that.
  Eva Longoria Quotes
• Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. And even when he departs from nature, he must do it with the conviction that it is only to interpret her more fully.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
  Pablo Picasso
• The most fundamental reason one paints is in order to see.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes