[…] I’ve come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day. – Woody Allen
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. – Benjamin J. Carey
You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity. – Banksy
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself. – Marty Rubin
The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake. – Roman Payne
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. – Neil Gaiman
Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine L’Engle
Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.- – Langston Hughes
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition. – V. Vale
