An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have. – Andy Warhol

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

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls. – Ingmar Bergman

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak. – Tom Robbins

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. – George Bernard Shaw

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment. – Claude Monet

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible – William S. Burroughs

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible – William S. Burroughs

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values…. – Laurie Halse Anderson

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. – Edmond de Goncourt

To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes. – Akira Kurosawa

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes. – Pablo Picasso