“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.” – Stephen DeStaebler (Quoted in Art… Read More »Artistic Motivation

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.” –… Read More »The Challenge of Writing

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” – Hippocrates (Quoted in Art & Fear)

“My task … is to make you hear, to make you feel– and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is… Read More »Artistic Sensory Task

“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