Artspeaks Quotes & Sayings

Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act. — Michel Foucault

Eugene turned the key. A sound like a two-story house being shat out the asshole of a zebra ripped through the dashboard. — Patrick Ness

The word impossible is not in my dictionary. — Napoleon Bonaparte

War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes ... missing parts ... The best you can do is pick up the pieces that are left and start to build again. It'll never be the way it was before.
Vernon Kraft from The Ragtime Coven (coming later this year!) — Bruce Jenvey

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. — Susan Sontag

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely. — James Heckman

You can't even read American fiction to get a sense of how actual life is lived these days. You read American fiction to learn about dysfunctional white folk doing things that are weird to normal white folks. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Love is the most priceless treasure life affords us — Alan Harris

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him. — Billy Graham

The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 cars is so quick, I expect it to be another completely different experience, but still one that I know I'm going to enjoy. — Nelson Piquet

Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing. — Abbas Kiarostami

I saw, for the first time, how thin the line was between fear and love, between reverence and adoration. — Veronica Roth