Quotes: Alice Munro

"To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb." 

–– Alice Munro (1931-2024), Canadian short-story writer

Quotes: César A. Cruz

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." 

–– César A. Cruz (b. 1974), Mexican-born American scholar 

Source: Elle Decoration UK, March 2018, p. 89. 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 129.

Quotes: James Baldwin

"Artists are here to disturb the peace." 

–– James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer and activist 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 128.