Family Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

— William Saroyan

“While I was up there, I happened across a couple of other interesting finds. One , curiously enough, is a portrait of your uncle.…

— Tracy Anne Warren

“Why is it only now that I can see how many ordinary things are actually grotesque?”

— Sara Baume

“Anything would be better than these blotches coloured with self-pity and self-importance. Plagued scribbles that sink the heart and darken the soul. Rereading it…

— Marcel M. du Plessis

“I was physically revolted by and secretly frightened of those round moronic eyes, the pancake face, and orangeworms hair.”

— Toni Morrison

“If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of…

— Salman Rushdie

“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the…

— Victor Hugo

“I felt as if I were sitting in the window of an enormous department store. The figures around me weren't people, but shop dummies,…

— Sylvia Plath

“Nature well drawn, and wit, must now give place To gaudy nonsense and to dull grimace: Nor is it strange that you should like…

— George Etherege

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

— Ginnetta Correli

“Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your…

— Wendy Higgins Sweet Reckoning