“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”— Stephen Fry, books.google.com
“Eleanor was right. 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
“Mind if I join you? Figure the best way to learn about art is to sit with a masterpiece.”— Richelle Mead, amazon.com
“I have pretended to go mad in order to tell you the things I need to. I call it art. Because art is the word we give to our feelings made public. And art doesn't worry anyone.”— Iain S. Thomas, amazon.com
“We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith had always given us answers to all things. But it all went down the drain with Freud and Darwin. We were a…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss. Most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death. We contemplate and face it with great apprehension, profound fear, and terror. Sparing no financial or physic…”— Jack Kevorkian, pbs.org
“A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, csmonitor.com
“I would put my lips to your canvas, taste where the sweat dripped from the paintbrush, and the thick, metallic earthiness of your skin. I would run my tongue over the ridges of your beautifully crafted surface, kiss where the colors meet the edge of the frame. Claim it all as mine.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I do worry sometimes about whether I'm going to burn out. Not burn myself out, but burn my art out.”— Idris Elba, facebook.com
“Poetry writing is an immensely personal experience. Many people don't realize a poem is an extension of the poet. Such is the attachment that reading a poem may be interpreted as voyeuristic. Even if a poet practices to be published, for money, or does so in private - we do so for ourselves. We writ…”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“as a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, i know they have fallen in love with my mind. having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.”— Nayyirah Waheed, nayyirahwaheed.tumblr.com
“I like music because when I hear it, I … I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I’m not … for once, I’m not destroying, I’m creating.”— Sarah J. Maas, amazon.com
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com