"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." — Toni Morrison, American novelist, born 1931
"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it" — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear." — Andrew Motion, English poet, born 1952
"I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires." — Andrew Motion, English poet, born 1952
"In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways." — Andrew Motion, English poet, born 1952
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." — Mozart, German composer, born 1756
"When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly." — Mozart, German composer, born 1756
"Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not." — Mozart, German composer, born 1756