Bastille Quote by Bret Harte

I know I'm not creating transcendent works that will someday be taught in college. All I do is entertain. I try to entertain others…

— Sandra Brown

I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces are the…

— Rebecca Horn

It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an…

— Anonymous

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my…

— Kat Von D

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural…

— Claude Monet

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

— Anonymous

I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like my own…

— Skylar Grey

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

On many days my primary artistic struggle is, in fact, photography because it is harder to do good work with that. I see myself…

— Teju Cole

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one…

— Alex Hirsch

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light…

— Henri Matisse

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

— Ba Jin