Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. – André Breton

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don’t you realize that those two species are extinct now? – J.G. Ballard

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his true self and not from the self he thinks he should be. – Brenda Ueland

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be. – Brenda Ueland

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron

A Gift for You I send you… A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a plasma television screen with every movie you’ve ever wanted to watch. A wooden mailbox at the end of the lane is filled daily with beguiling invitations to tea parties, horse-and-carriage rides, theatrical performances, and violin concerts. There is no obligation or need to respond. You sleep deeply and peacefully each night, and feel profoundly healthy. This cottage is yours to return to at any time. – SARK

A Gift for You
I send you…

A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is a cabinet near the front door, where your favorite meals appear, several times a day. Desserts are plentiful and calorie free. The closet is stocked with colorful robes and pajamas, and a painting in the bedroom slides aside to reveal a plasma television screen with every movie you’ve ever wanted to watch. A wooden mailbox at the end of the lane is filled daily with beguiling invitations to tea parties, horse-and-carriage rides, theatrical performances, and violin concerts. There is no obligation or need to respond.

You sleep deeply and peacefully each night, and feel profoundly healthy. This cottage is yours to return to at any time. – SARK

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art. – Hermann Bahr

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault. – Jennifer Elisabeth

Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing, in order to go further with my creative dreams. Whenever I experience contraction, I explore it by asking, “Where did I stop and why?” Building a creative dream life is not just about achieving, succeeding, or “meeting goals.” It is also about floundering, stumbling, tripping and failing. – SARK

Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing, in order to go further with my creative dreams.

Whenever I experience contraction, I explore it by asking, “Where did I stop and why?”

Building a creative dream life is not just about achieving, succeeding, or “meeting goals.” It is also about floundering, stumbling, tripping and failing. – SARK

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. – Marcel Duchamp

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can. – Kurt Schwitters