“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”— Virginia Woolf Related Quotes “If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.”— Walker Percy “Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.”— Marty Rubin “I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.”– Jerry Saltz