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

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. – James Cameron

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

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer

Art is everywhere you look for it, hail the twinkling stars for they are God’s careless splatters – El Greco

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

Art is either a complaint or appeasement. – Jasper Johns

The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars. – Francis August Schaeffer

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died, if nobody remembers how you lived. Forgoing freak accidents, we all choose how we die by how we live. Suicide, old age, AIDS, Cirrhosis of the liver, our deaths tell of how we lived. And even in a freak accident, if we are worth remembering, our live will overshadow our death. If Henry Ford had gotten run over by a Mercedes, people would still remember him as the driver of the hit and run that changed history with his automobile assembly lines. – Jarod Kintz

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died, if nobody remembers how you lived. Forgoing freak accidents, we all choose how we die by how we live. Suicide, old age, AIDS, Cirrhosis of the liver, our deaths tell of how we lived. And even in a freak accident, if we are worth remembering, our live will overshadow our death. If Henry Ford had gotten run over by a Mercedes, people would still remember him as the driver of the hit and run that changed history with his automobile assembly lines. – Jarod Kintz

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. – Christian Dior

Consider everything an experiment. – Corita Kent

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. – Pope John Paul II

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece. – Pope John Paul II