#i

Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#funny #humor #lisa-mcmann #wake #dreams

The first function of an art student is to observe, to study nature. ↗

— Kimon Nicolaides

#art-student #draw #drawing #art

Todo concepto filosófico, tomado en su sentido más genérico, explica cualquier cosa. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#filosofía #age

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches. ↗

— Greg Bear

#design

...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is meant to support some political movement or ideology. All fiction reinscribes the problematic past in terms of the present, and, if it is significant at all, reckons with it instead of simply making it palatable or pretty. What aesthetic is adequate to the Holocaust, or to the recent tragedy in Haiti? Narrative is not exculpatory—it is in fact about culpability, about recognizing human suffering and responsibility, and so examining what is true in us and about us. If we’re to say anything important, we require an art less facile, and editors willing to seek it. ↗

— Michael Copperman

#authority #culpability #race #representation #art

The art of research is the ability to look at the details and see the passion. ↗

— Zero Effect

#art

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#religion #art

After all, you couldn't expect any man to turn away from a beautiful woman with her ass in the air. ↗

— Constance Daley

#beauty

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing. ↗

— Albert Camus

#creativity #publication #age

The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective, is how you insist on putting a financial value on everything. ↗

— Peter Davis

#finances #money #art