"We considered ourselves the bad girls.”

Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Hanging Out Your Dirty Laundry

“Writing is an opportunity to be many things.”

Eileen Myles Interviewed by Linn Ullmann

"You can make tone with form."

Dana Schutz
The Tone of a Sculpture

“Your work has its own trajectory, and it goes where it wants to go. If you’re smart, you just follow it."

Kiki Smith
In a Wandering Way

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but I’ve never lost entirely."

Sam Gilliam
Artists Are Supposed to Change

“The world is very, very beautiful if you look at it."

David Hockney
The World is Beautiful

"A novelist is not a puppeteer."

Paul Auster
I Am the Laboratory

“There’s a strength in femininity, and it’s been very important for me to have that in the dresses.”

Cecilie Bahnsen
Inside the Design Studio

Yahya Hassan
Poems of Rage

"We try to grasp the fleeting moment and are afraid of losing it by knowing it too well.”

Gifts of Chance – a film about Jørgen Leth

"You could be strange without being put in the hands of a psychologist immediately.”

Michel Houellebecq
Q&A with His Readers

“The moment you empower people, there is hope.”

Balkrishna Doshi
The Symphony of Architecture