“I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty…”— W. Somerset Maugham, amazon.com
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”— Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com
“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”— Flannery O'Connor, amazon.com
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”— George Bernard Shaw, 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
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“When museums stay open after-hours, they tend to spice things up by throwing a party or holding a special event — especially on V-Day. Take an after-dark art tour for two.”— Lauren Valenti, marieclaire.com
“We could have easily become absorbed by the tragedy, lost in it and paralyzed by it, but what came back to us was the instinct to dance. I began as a dancer, and in those days of pain and shock I went back to where I started. Creating dance is the thing I know best. It is how I recognize myself.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com
“I read till all hours if I want to. If I get up at five and I can't sleep and I want to work, I go out and I go to work. So I work, I'm on call. I'm like a doctor and it's an emergency. And I'm the emergency.”— Phillip Roth, newyorker.com
“Give me a writer who thinks he has all the time in the world and I'll show you a writer who never delivers.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com
“In order to be habitually creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com
“Art is not about minimizing risk and delivering work that is guaranteed to please.”— Twyla Tharp, amazon.com