Lindsay Sutherland

“We're so often told that art can't really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living.”
― Olivia Laing , Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

“An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.”
― Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs

“Historians of images also explained that photographs do not necessarily tell greater truths than sketches or paintings. Precisely because they seem to provide incontrovertible proof, photographs can actually distort reality more effectively than either documentary art or the written word.”
― John Herd Thompson, Forging the Prairie West

“What is art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? Didn't it all boil down to sticking a female in front of you and painting her as you feel she is?”
― Émile Zola, The Masterpiece