“ Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. Marian Engel Novelist
“ I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed. Marian Engel Novelist
“ The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
“ What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather Author
“ Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. Maxim Gorky Writer
“ Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. Jamake Highwater Writer
“ Becoming mature is not important for art. Technical perfection is not relevant to art. Precision in art is only achieved by total duty of loyalty. Love, lusciousness, birth and fertility are precise tools of art, like laws. Jonathan Meese Painter
“ One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. Thom Yorke Musician