“It had to be fun to visit, too, but if you didn't like the photos you took there—well, then what was the point?”— Arielle Pardes, wired.com
“We’re all flabbergasted, to be frank. I wonder, what are they even trying to say? ‘I am here Instagramming?’ It’s like this new first-person narrative of the museum experience. I’m fascinated.”— Nicholas Bell, wired.com
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.”— Timothy Leary, books.google.com
“The goal is to never stay the same. I always want to be changing and evolving. That’s the whole point of life and the whole point of making art is to be constantly moving.”— Sufjan Stevens, doublej.net.au
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent—dimly, briefly—revelations unattainable by reason.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can—that is their secret.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.”— Pierre-Auguste Renoir, amazon.com
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…”— Nelson Algren, amazon.com
“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”— Salvador Dalí, en.wikiquote.org
“The living inhabitation of the world — the grazing and nesting in it, — the spiritual power of the air, the rocks, the waters, to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, — happier if it needed no help of mine, — this was the essential love of Nature in me, this t…”— John Ruskin, amazon.com