Your Daily Insight as told by Kary Mullis

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. 

Your Daily Insight as told by Barbara Kruger

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. 

Your Daily Insight as told by Francis Ford Coppola

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. 

Your Daily Insight as told by Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. 

Your Daily Insight as told by Mario Andretti

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Your Daily Insight as told by Beverly Sills

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Your Daily Insight as told by William Faulkner

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

Your Daily Insight as told by Dolly Parton

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Your Daily Insight as told by Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Your Daily Insight as told by Susan Meiselas

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.