No one
has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built,
or invented except literally to get out of hell.
-- Antonin Artaud
1896-1948, French
Theater Producer, Actor, Theorist
The
lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot
force them to spiritual creativity.
-- Sholem Asch
1880-1957,
Polish-born American Writer
All
works of art are commissioned in the sense that no
artist can create one by a simple act of will but
must wait until what he believes to be a good idea
for a work ''comes'' to him.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973,
Anglo-American Poet
Much
ingenuity with a little money is vastly more
profitable and amusing than much money without
ingenuity.
-- Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British
Novelist
