“Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.”— Benjamin Wood Related Quotes “My response to stress is just as complex as my artwork.”— Efrat Cybulkiewicz “In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death. This, at first, was indescribable.”— Robert Hughes “It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again.”— Mark Rothko