"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

Happy Birthday, Ingrid Bergman!

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.
John Lennon

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life
John Lennon

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John Lennon

The more I see, the less I know for sure.
John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent Willem van Gogh

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
Vincent Willem van Gogh

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke
Vincent Van Gogh

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Willem van Gogh

This sadness will last forever.
Vincent Van Gogh

“Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.”
― Michael Haneke

“It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.”
― Michael Haneke

“Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable”
― Michael Haneke

“I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.”
― Michael Haneke

Film is simply the most complex way you can express yourself
Michael Haneke

I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
Michael Haneke

Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.
Michael Haneke