Found on Cosmos

Art is choosing to do something skillfully, caring about the details, bringing all of yourself to make the finest work you can. It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorification, and need for approval.

As artists, we are on a continual quest to get closer to the universe by getting closer to self. Moving ever nearer to the point where we can no longer tell where one begins and the other ends.

The reason we’re alive is to express ourselves in the world. And creating art may be the most effective and beautiful method of doing so.

each piece of art has a unique, life-giving feature that makes it what it is.

The jostle we get from art can be found nearly anywhere. There is an artist in each of us to the extent that we struggle to keep our brains from compressing our experience. Art is a choice. It is a fight against complacency. It is a decision to forge a life that's richer, more uncomfortable, more mindblowing, more uncertain. And ultimately, more be