Activity Quote by Dave Hickey

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a…

— Chris Kraus

How art works is really interesting. It comes from our unconscious, a lot of it. And were communicating in ways were not completely aware…

— Grayson Perry

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly,…

— Charles de Lint

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

— Conor Oberst

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

— Isabel Allende

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

— Denis Dutton

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's…

— George Carlin

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

— Anonymous

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

— Sean Penn

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

— Anonymous