Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to

recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
Nelson Goodman

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Charles de Lint

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
Guy Johnson

Time is flying never to return.
Virgil

I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.
John Bonham

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Frank Moore Colby