"To avoid the commonplace is not enough; the highest art reduces significance in order to obtain that inexplicable bombshell perfection." — Samuel Beckett
"...to be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living."
—Samuel Beckett
"Profits and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, 'edgemen' who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact and imagination." - Palahniuk (from Rant)
