Lilly

“[Monster] meant something more nuanced, and something more elemental. It meant: someone whose behavior disrupts our ability to apprehend the work on its own terms.
A monster in my mind, was an artist who could not be separated from some dark aspects of his or her biography. (Maybe it works for light aspects too. Maybe there are golden monsters. But it seems very unlikely, or at best very rare.)”
― Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess