Allen Ginsberg

"Fortunately, art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world, endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh." [Seen at The Nocturnes.]

Brenda Ueland

"I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness."

Mark Twain

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." [Quotes of the Day]

Johann Sebastian Bach

"Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret." [oboeinsight]

Rene Descartes

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." [Quotes of the Day]

Edward Abbey

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork." [Quotes of the Day]

Voltaire

"Anything too stupid to be said is sung." [Quotes of the Day]

Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." [Quotes of the Day]

Glenn Gould

"The purpose of art is not the momentary ejection of adrenaline, but rather the lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity." [oboeinsight]