An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human. – Man Ray
Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols … Art tells gorgeous lies that come true. – Hakim Bey
Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time. – Marc Jacobs
When there is no freedom, there is no creativity. – Soud Qbeilat
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. – Michelangelo
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away. – John Frohnmayer
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality – Jean Rousset
Building your “dream life” is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:
Mistakes
Delays
Starting over
Failure
The building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not linear in nature but far more interesting. You might start a creative dream, take the “next step”, and find yourself completely bored, dissatisfied, or just not inspired. – SARK
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life. – Irving Stone
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. – Nick Hornby
A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use a little art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. – Arthur Conan Doyle
If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
– The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 – Mervyn Peake
