“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
Oscar Wilde
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey
“In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.”
Vincent van Gogh
“[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”
Charles de Lint
“. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .”
William Gaddis
