The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter,
one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
–Virginia Woolf
Art is so much more real than life. Some art is much more real than some life, I mean.
–Rebecca West
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple.
–Iris Murdoch
Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That’s’ why we have art.
–Joyce Carol Oates
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
–Susan Sontag
I try to teach my heart not to want things it can’t have.
–Alice Walker
I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure.
–Amy Tan
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
–May Sarton
