So I was on my own—totally. And there’s something good about that. Because not only did you dig deeper into yourself, but adversity—in other words, not getting acknowledgements from outside—brings out the best in you. To react to it and to become better.
~ Agnes Denes / Interview
Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.
~ Mark Twain
“The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut
“I believe that you either love the work or the rewards. Life is a lot easier if you love the work.”
~ Jane Smiley
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
~ Maya Angelou
“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”
~ Steven Pressfield
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing”
~ Marc Chagall
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
~ Mary Oliver