lycanthropia

A diary means yes indeed. (Gertrude Stein)

   

When I sit down to write, a monstrous reader looms up who sits down beside me and continually mutters, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t see it, I don’t want it.’ Some writers can ignore this presence, but I have never learned how. (Flannery O'Connor)

I began to copy out everything that was said. The marks construct an instant of nature gradually, without the boredom of a story. I emphasize this. I will do anything to avoid boredom. It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough. (Anne Carson, "Short Talks")

Artists have set out, however unconsciously, to prove one of two things: either that they are mad in a sane world, or that they are sane in a mad world. (Dylan Thomas)

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. (Frida Kahlo)