“Fall in love, get heart broken, and don’t get over them, not until you’ve created art that lives on longer than the love you had.”— Scott McGoldrick, goodreads.com
“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warne…”— David Mitchell, amazon.com
“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.co.uk
“If your goal is to create art, the worst way you can approach it is to think about what others want to see.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”— Pablo Picasso, books.google.com.ph
“Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.”— Elaine de Kooning, aaa.si.edu
“Content is to be dissolved so completely into form that the work of art or literature cannot be reduced in whole or in part to anything not itself.”— Clement Greenberg, amazon.com
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”— Chuck Klosterman, amazon.com