“The best art is made while eating cookies or drinking chocolate.”— Seth Meyers, Dimo, Fred Armisen, imdb.com
“My core goal as an artist is to deconstruct the idea of working, of effort because we are raised to believe that great works of art require suffering.”— Seth Meyers, Dimo, Fred Armisen, imdb.com
“Art is not supposed to be safe. It's supposed to be radical.”— Seth Meyers, Izabella Barta, Cate Blanchett, imdb.com
“A bondage-themed, improvised movie with borderline-unattractive no-name actors. The anticipation for our masterpiece kept growing and growing.”— John Mulaney, Bill Hader, Jerry Wallach, Bill Hader, imdb.com
“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com
“All I care about is that I might help take you where you’re looking to go.”— John Mayer, facebook.com
“Swedish artist Hilma af Klint passed away in 1944 at the age of 81 and left behind more than 1,000 works that she had kept private. She believed that the world “was not ready for her art,” so she asked that the pieces remain unseen for another two decades.”— Sara Barnes , mymodernmet.com
“Rather than trying to make some sort of epic narrative about America, I wanted to simply spend time looking at other people and, hopefully, briefly glimpse their interior life...Whether a picture is made in Odessa or Minneapolis, my goal was the same: to simply spend time in the presence of another…”— Alec Soth, Kenneth Dickerman, washingtonpost.com
“I didn’t want to make money, didn’t want to be in business. My dad was so disappointed. He took out [college] loans, he knew that I took out loans. I was like, ‘You know, I wanna make art. I wanna write. I wanna make music. I wanna create things.’”— Beto O'Rourke, vanityfair.com
“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and fi…”— Steven Katz, F. W. Murnau, John Malkovich, imdb.com
“Wait! There's something interesting in that woman's smile. I might learn to like her. Hang her in my bathroom.”— Carol Sobieski, Thomas Meehan, 'Daddy' Oliver Warbucks, Albert Finney, imdb.com
“Josephine: A guy upstairs, he died. Rhedora Haze: And you just took them. Josephine: He had no family for friends. Rhedora Haze: I can make you rich.”— Dan Gilroy, Josephina, Zawe Ashton, imdb.com
“There is some sort of power. Some spirit—it’s connected to his art. Something truly goddamned strange is going on!”— Dan Gilroy, Morf Vandewalt, imdb.com
“The drunken poet... isn’t merely drunk in the way a lawyer might be drunk, or an orthopedic surgeon, or even just a sad, anxious person. No, the poet has made a sacrifice. He is drunk for art.”— David Orr, nytimes.com
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.”— Deborah Harkness, amazon.com