I shut my eyes in order to see. – Paul Gauguin

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. – Robert McKee

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it’s place is a work extremely troublesome. – Plutarch

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it’s place is a work extremely troublesome. – Plutarch

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it’s a product of an assembly line. – Dejan Stojanovic

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. – George Bernard Shaw

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Art is vice. You don’t wed it, you rape it. – Edgar Degas

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where ‘falcons of the inner eye’ dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life’s memory of existence. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

[in the true mad north] of introspection,
where ‘falcons of the inner eye’
dive and die, glimpsing in their
dying fall, all life’s memory of existence. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them. – Andy Warhol

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment. – Chaim Potok

For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all the anguish this picture of pain will cause you. For the unspeakable mystery that brings good fathers and sons into the world and lets a mother watch them tear at each other’s throats. For the Master of the Universe, whose suffering world I do not comprehend. For dreams of horror, for nights of waiting, for memories of death, for the love I have for you, for all the things I remember, and for all the things I should remember but have forgotten, for all these I created this painting—an observant Jew working on a crucifixion because there was no aesthetic mold in his own religious tradition into which he could pour a painting of ultimate anguish and torment. – Chaim Potok

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe