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“The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.”
― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

“Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your brain. Little photographic snapshots. Then you get the major vision of the poem, which is like a giant magnet to which all these disparate little impressions fly and adhere, and there is the poem!”
― Carolyn Kizer

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí