“The poets have lamented the power of time to sweep away every object of their love.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”— Sarah Ruhl, amazon.com
“I thought about the notebooks I filled up in high school, the ones that I’m still too scared to open up and revisit, not because I think my bad writing will make me cringe, but because I’m afraid my bad writing will make me yearn to write like that again—and I don’t mean writing poems that compare m…”— Jenny Zhang, rookiemag.com
“Comedy isn’t about hurting peoples feelings, it’s about making people laugh.”— Arin Hanson, quotegrumps.tumblr.com
“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”— Dorothea Tanning, amazon.com
“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.”— Dorothea Tanning, theguardian.com
“Isn’t every human being both a scientist and an artist; and in writing of human experience, isn’t there a good deal to be said for recognizing that fact and for using both methods?”— James Agee, amazon.com
“Art is the only way to ascend to God, doing what our divine Master did, create.”— Paul Gauguin, proleutimpressionists.tumblr.com
“If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.”— Alan Rickman, thoughtcatalog.com
“The best filter isn’t BuzzFeed, or The Atlantic, or whatever. The best filter is money. That is how you say “I love you.” This is America. This is a capitalist country. We say “I’m sorry” with money. We say “I love you” with money.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, buzzfeed.com
“As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them — to restock the trout pond, so to speak. I call this process 'filling the well.' Filling the well involves the active pursuit of images to refresh our arti…”— Julia Cameron, amazon.com
“We see paintings in time and place (no picture makes this clearer, putting us on the spot and in the moment) and always in the context of our own lives.”— Laura Cumming, amazon.com
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It…”— Martha Graham, amazon.com
“I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself t…”— Saul Steinberg, youtube.com
“The purpose of art is to transfer feeling from one person’s heart to another person’s heart.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“Talent is the ability to make something that is more stunning than human presence.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“In general, though, women aren’t really allowed to be kick-ass. It’s like the famous distinction between art and craft: Art, and wildness, and pushing against the edges, is a male thing. Craft, and control, and polish, is for women. Culturally we don’t allow women to be as free as they would like, b…”— Kim Gordon, amzn.com
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com