Accomplish Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods…

— Willa Cather

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,…

— Katherine Anne Porter

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it.…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter, sculptor, composer,…

— Annie Dillard

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“If the journey I am on is of my terribly tedious design, dead ends will likely be my lot. If the journey is of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

“Sometimes to see your work’s rightful place you have to walk to the edge of the precipice and search the deep chasms. You have…

— David Bayles

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present—and can be         none in the future; And I will show that, whatever…

— Walt Whitman

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...

— Eric Maisel

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“If I had to choose an auspicious sign for the approach of the new millennium, I would choose this: the sudden nimble leap of…

— Italo Calvino