Emily

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." (C.S. Lewis)"The only thing that makes art of a bloody piece of grocery string hanging from a bloody tack is the power of coercion." (Mark Helprin)"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." (Michelangelo)"I only want to do simple, very simple art... with no other thought in mind but to render... the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true." (Paul Gauguin)"To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try to slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand- that is art." (James Joyce)"A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside..." (U2)