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“When you’re a creative person, you have to create. Retirement isn’t part of that mentality. The mentality is, What is inspiring you next?
–The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand by Pamela Skaist-Levy, Gela Nash-Taylor, Booth Moore
From the first chapter:
We just wanted to create something people loved and a work environment that made us happy. That’s our version of the American Dream. That’s the glitter plan.
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But the past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
–The Soul of Man Under Socialism (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wild)
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“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.”
“They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.”
“The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.”
–The Soul of Man Under Socialism (Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wild)
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“We don’t need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated…Why Make Art? Because you must. The new connected economy demands it and will reward you for nothing else. Because you can. Art is what it is to be human.”
–The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly? by Seth Godin
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“I had that wonderful feeling writers get sometimes, not very often, of being with a great many people, ancient spirits, all very happy to see me consulting and acknowledging them, and eager to let me know, through the joy of their presence, that, indeed, I am not alone.”
-In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
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“Our parents seemed to know that an extreme negative emotion held against other human beings for reasons they do not control can be blinding. Blindness about other human beings, especially for a writer, is equivalent to death.”
-In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens