“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?”— Chris Kraus Related Quotes “What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”– Anatole France “The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God… or an artist and a writer.”— Vera Nazarian “Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”– Thomas Hardy