"I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads."
- Teresa R. Funke
"As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive."
"If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over it, or under it, or through it. We humans are not meant to be contained, and neither are our thought..."
"If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning."
"It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent."
"Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most."
"In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again."
"As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become."
"In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!"
"Our art is never really ours. Each person who experiences it brings to it a piece of themselves and reacts to it in ways that stem from their personal struggles, beliefs, morals, and even hang-ups."