“Basil [the artist], my dear boy, puts everything that is charming into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but… Read More »Artists in Life and Work

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.… Read More »Poetry and Theft

“Art is theft.” – Pablo Picasso (Quoted in Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon)

“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.” – Andy Warhol

“In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol

“I would prefer not to.” – Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” – Walt Whitman

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” – Douglas Adams

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Give hardest job to the laziest man, and he will find the easiest way to do it.” – Various