“The artist is a seer, a becomer. He has seen something in life that is too great, too unbearable also, and the mutual embrace of life with what threatens it, so that the corner of nature or districts of the town that he sees, along with their characters, accede to a vision that, through them, compos…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”— Annette Messager, goodreads.com
“But somewhere inside you, whether you were making out with someone in a bar or having dinner with your friends, was always your canvas, its shapes and possibilities floating embryonically behind your pupils. There was a period — or at least you hoped there was — with every painting or project when t…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com