Artists have a unique ability to paint the world, and to help people see injustice. They do it not with guns, but with pens and guitars and paintbrushes.

— Teresa R. Funke

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

— Teresa R. Funke

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.

— Teresa R. Funke

If you build a wall to separate people, there will be those who find a way around the wall, or over it, or under it, or through it. We humans are not meant to be contained, and neither are our thoughts.

— Teresa R. Funke

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

— Teresa R. Funke

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

— Teresa R. Funke

I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't want to feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.

— Teresa R. Funke

In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

— Teresa R. Funke

In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.

— Teresa R. Funke

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

— Teresa R. Funke