Put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.
Stephen King in On Writing
There is an inter-connectiveness between art and the artist. Our lives are fuel for art, a touching point, a grounding place, a beginning, but not a support system. It’s not the scaffold of bones that holds the art in place, because art should not be tethered. Art flies.
Art becomes the air that intoxicates and enlivens the life.
Art supports life.
Shawn L. Bird 