"That's what we do as artists: we collect, we connect, we serve as scribes for the collective culture, and as messenge…"

"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are…"

"One writes out of one thing only — one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this …"

"Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotion…"

"Being an artist is about creative freedom. I want to save the world and that's why social commentary is always presen…"

"“He is difficult to work with, like every real artist, but certainly fond of money—” “Like every real artist. I belie…"

"A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All …"

"Artists shouldn't be made famous."

"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complic…"

"In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other."