The creation of art requires descent into the dark.
Doug Dorst, S..
“What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.”
“-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY”
“I know the you whos in the margins. I know youre thinking hard about what you want and why more than some people ever do. I know you can take on a challenge and kick its ass. And I know youve tried...”
“Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The wrinkle of her upper lip? He does not know. Nor does he have any way to tell whet...”
“If I am going out into the unknown, it might as well be the really unknown.”
“-That's kind of sad.-I used to think so. Now I think: you're born a certain way. Later you get to decide how much you want to fight/change that. I don't mind being alone.-You must mind. If you didn...”
“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”
“art is risk made visible”
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”