The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. – Anneli Rufus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. – Albert Camus

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while. – Corita Kent

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart – Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart – Charles Bukowski

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. – Machado de Assis

The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species. – Machado de Assis

…I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few… – William Morris

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

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. – Jorge Luis Borges

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can’t avoid saying. – Jasper Johns

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can’t avoid saying. – Jasper Johns

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. – Jen Knox

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

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career. – E.A. Bucchianeri