The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’. – Arthur Rimbaud

If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens. – Grandma Moses

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. – Michelle Obama

The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. – Michelle Obama

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature. – Oscar Wilde

The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence. – Woody Allen

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. – Toni Morrison

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. – Toni Morrison

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she’s learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she’s trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it’s enough just to look around and to know that she’s not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god’s work isn’t done by god it’s done by people – Ani DiFranco

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play
and she’s learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say
and she’s trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves
and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove

she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home
and it’s enough just to look around and to know that she’s not alone

up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple
but god’s work isn’t done by god
it’s done by people – Ani DiFranco

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She’d remain outside the public sector. She’d be an anarchist, she’d travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She’d fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She’d really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She’d have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow – no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter. – Joy Williams

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She’d remain outside the public sector. She’d be an anarchist, she’d travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She’d fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She’d really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She’d have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow – no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter. – Joy Williams

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it…try to fake three laughs in an hour — ha ha ha ha ha — they’ll take you away, man. You can’t. – Lenny Bruce

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. – Karl Lagerfeld

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies – John Fowles