"What the literary arts do is provide you with that vocabulary. So you can name the place where it hurts. You can name that itch — and now you know where to go and scratch."

By N Stern

By Bill Russell

By Liz Goldner

By Grey Dey

"The most invisible type of censorship is actually the art market…You have to see the arts as a way to keep your humanity, not as a way to make a living."

By Wei Huang

"We have a government that's behaving in a very fragile way — when they put in measures to limit what people can learn in schools and what they can talk about in the workplace, that's coming from a deep fear of the truth."

By Samantha Hull

By Jan Wurm

By Deborah Bishop

By Kelly Jean Egan & Matt Gonzalez

By Tsitsi Michelle

By Olin Marcus Johanssen

By Erik Recendez

By Garrett Caples

By Gabrielle Selz

"When I sold my first Line Drawing to the Oakland Museum, the art critic in the paper referred to it as, 'A mindless drawing on cheap brown paper.' Later I told him he was right on."