"...being creative is like dealing with Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: you must be willing to confront - and overcome - starched and suffocating conformity and/or the status quo..."

                                                      -tl

 

"If the word 'artist' is to retain any meaning at all, the minimum requirement to merit it should be the lifelong commitment to a craft, a discipline, as one's central concern. For 'artist' is an honorific: 'Ah, that Leonardo, what an artist...'

"To pin this honorific on oneself is a bit too pompous...if ever a Frenchman hands you his card 'Jean Dupont, artiste-peintre,' you can be sure that Monsieur Dupont is a hack..."

                                     -Frederick Franck 

                                         Art as a Way