Quote by Alisa Craig

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.”

— Jonathan Heatt

“Art is a terrible preacher, but a tremendous conversationalist.”

— Melanie Dale

“And don’t forget that it is the press, the pulpit, and the university that mould public opinion, set the thought-pace of the nation. As…

— Jack London

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”

— Anonymous

“Sometimes I think I'm an artist. Once in a great while I even think I may be a visionary, but never a prophet, a…

— Henry Miller

“You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live your life in a…

— Sarah Gerdes

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

— Diogenes Laërtius

“Trying to preach to the world and simultaneously be accepted and elevated in it leads to a diluted message and lifestyle of compromise and…

— Hope D. Blackwell

“We've learned too well to become good theoreticians, but have not learned to be good practitioners of what we preach. When ideas from books…

— Cristina Metzli Tzintzun

“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they…

— Laird Barron

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff