Materialistic Quote by Jacob Needleman

Martin Swinger is one of those rare singer-songwriters who excels at everything: singing, songwriting, guitar-playing, and being so present with his humor, tenderness, and…

— Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when…

— Richard Tillinghast

“Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It’s incredible that the coldest moments of his abjection…

— Roberto Bolaño

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the…

— Chaim Potok

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

Frank Berliners spiritual memoir is beautifully crafted and written. It is a tale about love, and the great longing that springs from there—to learn,…

— John Welwood

I stole that from Vito Russo. He said he was a devout believer in Judyism.

— Charles Busch

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of…

— Erik Satie

For the virtuoso, musical works are in fact nothing but tragic and moving materializations of his emotions; he is called upon to make them…

— Franz Liszt

“The truth is that this is the only way I can live: in two directions. I need two lives. I am two beings. When…

— Anaïs Nin