“You're always working to the next song. No matter how many songs you've done, you're always looking for the next one.”— Ian Curtis, thequietus.com
“An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible. He struggles and suffers knowing that he can never realize his most perfect ideal. Occasional moments of ecstasy lure him on, but nothing is final in art, it is always progressing.”— Alvin Langdon Coburn, masters-of-photography.com
“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.”— Robert Mapplethorpe, news.artnet.com