“Suffering is supposed to be the raw stuff of art.”
“Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use. ”
“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
“You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.”
“- But Abraham, you mean I'm supposed to make stuff up !?!?- You are creators, you make stuff up all the time!”
“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”