Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Colleen Atwood
I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
Margaret Atwood
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
W. H. Auden
'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
Art is born of humiliation.
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.