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“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”
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“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”
Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010. 
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“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”
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“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”
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“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.”
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“So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.”
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“Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.”
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“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”
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“The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.”
Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
