Humanizing-elements Quote by Emma Thompson

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on…

— Cheryl Strayed

“What ambitious story could you turn your life into? You can’t start over. You have to use only what’s in the toolbox—and make art…

— Elizabeth Hyde Stevens

“good art illustrates anything at all, it’s likely to be a story you didn’t even know needed telling.”

— David Salle

“A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality.”

— George Saunders

“Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in…

— James Crumley

“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.”

— Joshua Foa Dienstag

“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories…

— Dave Hickey

“Our story was a complex piece of art that we worked on every day. It wasn’t always beautiful in the traditional sense, but it…

— Rachel Higginson

“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it…

— Harry Crews

“There is a moment, in all my studying of movies and scripts, that I’d realized something elemental about human beings and why I’d been…

— C.J. Roberts

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“People have to create some kind of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.”

— Leila Sales