“Art: The un-yet is”
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection.”
Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
“I found myself adrift in the lonely expanse that an actor enters upon being criticized, but I remained enveloped in my role as if it were an invisible skin, close and protective.”
Source: Star
“If our lives were to be defined by inaccessibility, we could recontextualize that definition as a choice. A distaste for the interests of those who could afford to have interests. Art, which had never been truly democratic to begin with, was now an
unattainable interest.”
Source: Immaculate Conception
“He carried on painting those skulls, because then it flet like Christian was still alive in his fingertips. Perhaps its like that for you too. Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
“In the Nature of Art, Within the Art of Nature”
Source: Elixir: A Journey into Ancestral Alchemology
“Within the civic space, we tend to see Creators in three roles: creating messages, creating art, and educating others.”
Source: Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives
“I'd worked my whole life to acquire the technical, the emotional skills to make those paintings. I'd chopped tomatoes and peeled half-eaten onion rings off plastic trays for thousands of hours. I'd painted in grief, weeping and painting, painting and weeping. There were probably weeks, whole months when I did not smile even once. I lived in a studio so small I could smell my neighbor's farts. I spent every penny I had on canvas, brushes, paints. I killed myself. I killed my love. I forced myself to forget my husband, my brother. My country. My son.
It's easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
Source: Martyr!
“All works of art involve collaboration; all works of criticism doubly so.”
Source: Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall