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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. – Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. – Pablo Picasso

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C.S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. – C.S. Lewis

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know. – Groucho Marx