Quotes from Mark Ryden

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

I believe if you follow your heart and do what you love, success will follow. If you enchant yourself, others will be too.

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.