I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you. – Jennifer Elisabeth
Art is science made clear. – Jean Cocteau
I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it’s poison. There has always existed a sort of psychic butcher who works the scales of transcendence, who weighs out the bloody cost of true art. – David Lovelace
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. – Khaled Hosseini
Music is an outburst of the soul. – Frederick Delius
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. – Oscar Wilde
This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values…. – Laurie Halse Anderson
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. – Edward Hopper
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. – Leonardo da Vinci
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. – Anton Chekhov
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. – Artur Schnabel
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things. – Pablo Picasso
