"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." ― W. Somerset Maugham Topic(s): Art More From W. Somerset Maugham "Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long." "Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable." More In Art "Art is not living. It is the use of living."― Audre Lorde "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!"― O. Henry "The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."― Cyril Connolly