“Paint a portrait. You don’t have to be an artist. If both of you are lazing together one afternoon, take a piece of paper and sketch a picture of her. Even if it’s a funny caricature, it’s something that’ll remind her of the good times even years later.”— Erica Patterson, lovepanky.com
“If he’s into art, find a play that you think he would like and get him tickets. Maybe it’s a performing circus troupe or a one man show. Obscure shows can be really fun and entertaining so don’t think you need to drop a bunch of money on an expensive show.”— Shannon Yrizarry, herinterest.com
“The working, concentrating artist is an adult who refuses interruption from himself, who remains absorbed and energized in and by the work -- who is thus responsible to the work.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“People take you more seriously when you have a lot of followers, but even more so when your work has meaning. Money is somewhere in between.”— Jesse Herzog, twitter.com
“Destruction leads to a very rough road, but it also breeds creation.”— Red Hot Chili Peppers, open.spotify.com
“Look at the stars, look how they shine for you and all the things that you do.”— Coldplay, youtube.com
“Art is long and life is short, and we must wait patiently while trying to sell our skin dearly.”— Vincent Van Gogh, proleutimpressionists.tumblr.com
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”— Albert Einstein, designschool.canva.com
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”— Lady GaGa, cnn.com
“Jess drew the way some people drank whiskey. The peace would start at the top of his muddled brain and seep down through his tired and tensed-up body. Lord, he loved to draw. Animals, mostly. Not regular animals like Miss Bessie and the chickens, but crazy animals with problems—for some reason he li…”— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com
“Art is the place to safely explore all those other sides of you, because the side you want to bring home is the side that wants to be a good father and be a good husband and be a good son. In art we can be fucking nuts.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, gq.com
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell, orwell.ru
“I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer’s block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don’t. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.”— Barbara Kingsolver, amazon.com