1. It's only words... unless they're true. - David Mamet
2. When you risk becoming an artist, you risk taking your talent seriously.
- Dee Ito
3. The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. - Elizabeth Drew
4. Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake. - E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
5. Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
6. Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
- Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)