Olya Petrakova

“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude towards success and fame; these two phenomena are but an extension, socially, of the process which began subjectively with the vocation and creation of the personal ego to be an artist. In this entire creative process, which begins with self-nomination as artist and ends in the fame of posterity, two fundamental tendencies — one might almost say, two personalities of the individual — are in continual conflict throughout: one wants to eternalize itself in artistic creation, the other in ordinary life — in brief, immortal man vs. the immortal soul of man.”
― Otto Rank, Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development

“I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.”
― Anne Bogart, What's the Story: Essays about art, theater and storytelling

“The desire to consume is a kind of lust...We long to have the world flow through us like air or food..”
― Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

“One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.”
― Loren Eiseley