"I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility." ― Jeanette Winterson Topic(s): Art More From Jeanette Winterson "Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement." "I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write." "Ordinary professionalism and 20 years’ experience can accomplish a lot, but it can’t access the hidden places." More In Art "No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone."― Martha Beck "In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."― Theodore Bikel "Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot."― William Shatner