Outsider Art Quotes

“Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist.”
― Eileen Miller, The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~”
― Eileen Miller, The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“In reference to Einstein's definition of insanity...
No Mr. Einstein, that is not insanity, that is autism.”
― Eileen Miller , The Girl Who Spoke with Pictures: Autism Through Art

“take a salad of pills and hit the floor”
― Pat Smith

“Uma cidade corresponde sempre às impressões de um forasteiro. Os domiciliados já não conseguem ter impressão alguma.”
― Ilse Losa, Sob Céus Estranhos

“Irreality is my reality complete with the negligent malevolence of society that everyone else plays for novelty to make a hollow existential point that I manifest flesh.”
― Tamara K. Walker

“End Of Men is a concoction of sex, outsider art, filmmaking and death including an Italian island”
― C.B. Murphy, End of Men

“A shit show is chaos as religion, because "God is dead." A shit show all by itself is usually a crime. A shit show when put on paper or to music, is no longer whirling, twirling chaos. Then it's art. We can take it on the road, and we can travel with it. Have shit show, will travel.”
― Fiona Helmsley, My Body Would Be the Kindest of Strangers

“Evenings I return with my head
Soaked with stars--place
A crown crafted of foil
On my head and set to work

By day I sweep the school
Nights I piece together heaven
The way God intended:
By hand, by saving
What some would throw away

No one sees scraps are what saves”
― Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead

“What we gather, we are”
― Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead

“My magpiety”
― Kevin Young, For the Confederate Dead