Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?” “I’ll make time,” I promised. “The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I’ll sing to them while I work. – Gloria Whelan
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again. – Mark Rothko
Either we are walled in by religious murals or knee-deep in the gears of engineering projects. An age that values its artists and scientists equally requires a sensitive balance between beauty’s lull into complacency and curiosity’s journey towards the limits of comfort. This would amount to something like a couch ergonimicized by mosaic cushions, dazzling the eye as it probes the butt with glass and stone. – Bauvard
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. – Edward Weston
The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter feels, Jesus of Nazareth did not walk around Galilee faceless. The icon of Jesus may not look like the man Jesus two thousand years ago, but it represents some *quality* of Jesus, or his mother, or his followers, and so becomes an open window through which we can be given a new glimpse of the love of God. – Madeleine L’Engle
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. – Chaim Potok
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . – Ralph Waldo Emerson
L’étude du beau est un duel où l’artiste crie de frayeur avant d’être vaincu. – Charles Baudelaire
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone. – Nicholas Sparks
Why Dream?
Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees.
The way to accomplish the assignment of truly living is to engage fully, richly, and deeply in the living of your dreams. We are made to dream and to live those dreams. – SARK
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand. – Janet Fitch
