Toni Morrison

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

There is only 1 difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

If you believe in your art and you love what you do, that energy will go out and people will respond.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.

There is no art without intention.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

People with talent are not interested in showing off behind another person.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.