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

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. – Criss Jami

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.” (Last words, according to Dickens’s obituary in The Times.) – Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”

(Last words, according to Dickens’s obituary in The Times.) – Charles Dickens

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to. – Jennifer Elisabeth

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to. – Jennifer Elisabeth

Somebody once asked me where I come up with my stuff. I replied, “Who knows? Where does yellow snow come from? It’s just a gift from God I guess. – Jarod Kintz

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dalí

…the second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it’s put together from the beginning. – David Gilmour

Art is vice. You don’t wed it, you rape it. – Edgar Degas

This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship … – Muriel Barbery

This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship … – Muriel Barbery

Art is literacy of the heart. – Elliot Eisner

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. – W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. – W. Somerset Maugham