• « Celui qui chante va de la joie à la mélodie, celui qui entend, de la mélodie à la joie. »

de Rabindranàth Tagore

• “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic, and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

— Graham Greene

“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. That solves a lot of problems: we don’t have to argue whether photographs are art, or whether performances are art, or whether Carl Andre’s bricks or Andre Serrano’s piss or Little Richard’s ‘Long Tall Sally’ are art, because we say, ‘Art is something that happens, a process, not a quality, and all sorts of things can make it happen.’ … What makes a work of art ‘good’ for you is not something that is already ‘inside’ it, but something that happens inside you — so the value of the work lies in the degree to which it can help you have the kind of experience that you call art.” — Brian Eno

• “To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.”

― Marcel Duchamp

• “I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”

— Vincent van Gogh

• « La leçon la plus importante que l'homme puisse apprendre dans sa vie n'est pas que la douleur existe dans le monde, mais qu'il dépend de nous d'en tirer profit, qu'il nous est loisible de la transmuer en joie. »

de Rabindranàth Tagore

• « Nul n’a jamais écrit ou peint, sculpté, modelé, construit, inventé, que pour sortir en fait de l’enfer. »

de Antonin Artaud

''A kind of cultural subwar has been going on for centuries and has come to the surface only in recent years. The dominant-left-brainers consider the dominant-right-brainers to be basically unfit for existence in the Earth Life System and tend to regard them with contempt or disbelief. The dominantright-brainers look on the others as unimaginative, dull, overmaterialistic, unfeeling, and lacking in "spiritual values." It is time now to declare peace in this battle and to set right this dangerous misunderstanding''

- Robert Monroe

“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut

“A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” ― Jorge Luis Borges