“People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.”
William Faulkner
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna f***ing swear a lot.”
Green Day
“When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.”
Oscar Wilde
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
