Cara Joy Cuellar

“We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.”
― Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.”
― Nikki Rowe

“The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.”
― Terence McKenna