A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him. – Dylan Thomas

I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush! – Jarod Kintz

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living… – Dione Lucas

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting. – Andy Warhol

You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. – Orson Scott Card

Imagination is Everything! – Termina Ashton

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please. – Hugh MacLeod

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you, ‘I’d like my crayons back, please. – Hugh MacLeod

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

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. – Émile Zola

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho

Give me a museum and I’ll fill it. – Pablo Picasso