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We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to manage your career, how to create a brand, because we're supposed to focus on the art.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

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