Beth Anderson

“It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.”
― Paul Gauguin, The Writings of a Savage

“Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“The shortest answer is doing the thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway