“A musician must make music. An artist must paint. A poet must write. If he is to be ultimately at peace with himself, what a man can be, he must be.”— Abraham Maslow, amazon.com
“You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”— Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“However much we would like advertising to be a science—because life would be simpler that way—the fact is that it is not. It is a subtle, ever-changing art, defying formularization, flowering on freshness and withering on imitation; where what was effective one day, for that very reason, will not be…”— Luke Sullivan, Bill Bernbach, amazon.com
“Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But fro…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.”— Alexander Pope, poetryfoundation.org
“All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right.”— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”— Alexander Pope, poetryfoundation.org
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art....It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“When you arrive at the place where you are too concerned with your career that is exactly the moment you must return to your art.”— Jami Attenberg, twitter.com
“Do not idolize the artists whose art you admire. Admire the art. Appreciate the person who created. But stop there.Yes, we can expect people to be of good character, but when it bleeds over into hero worship, you are setting yourself (and them) up for disappointment.”— Shaun King, twitter.com
“Culture, like most human actions and interactions, exists as a constant, chaotic series of feedback loops.”— Eric Thurm, hazlitt.net
“Bears repeating: Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.”— Steve Jobs, newyorker.com
“we study them in school, the tortured artists. look at all the poets who killed themselves what would their work have been without their depression?”— Ashe Vernon, latenightcornerstore.com