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Leave me your favorite quotes pretaining to the arts. Writing, fine arts, just generally making things. Even just inspirational get things done kind of quotes.

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"Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader." - John Updike, Writers on Themselves, The New York Times (17 August 1986)

a selection by Anaïs Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”-Chuck Palahniuk

“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.”-Colin Raye

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire”-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”-Oscar Wilde

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”-Albert Einstein

“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The best way out is always through" - Robert Frost

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”-Mark Twain

THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE ONES I HAD NEARBY DX I like quotes...

If you ever find yourself needing a quote source, I have used thinkexist.com before.

"Mighty oaks from little acorns grow."

and the one that really haunts me:

"You'll never finish if you don't start."

Benjamin Franklin- "Either write, or do something worth writing about."

The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. -Mark Twain I think :D

"Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads it's roots in your being, and as yourself solemnly 'Must I Write?'"
By a poet? I don't remember his name. Gaga has it tattooed on her arm, which is how I found it.

If you don't know the tune, hum a few bars and fake it. Chances are that your tune will be much better.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. A bird sings because it has a song.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

What do you need these for?

William Faulkner, speaking of Ernest Hemingway: "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

Ernest Hemingway, speaking of William Faulkner: "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"

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