To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. – Corita Kent

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way. – Corita Kent

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd. – E.A. Bucchianeri

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd. – E.A. Bucchianeri

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.” [Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003] – T.C. Boyle

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.”

[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003] – T.C. Boyle

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on. – Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on. – Marcel Proust

A line is a dot that went for a walk. – Paul Klee

A line is a dot that went for a walk. – Paul Klee

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. – André Breton

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. – André Breton

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. – Julia Cameron

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down. – Julia Cameron

Don’t worry about your originality. You couldn’t get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. – Robert Henri

Don’t worry about your originality. You couldn’t get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. – Robert Henri

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. – John Sloan