≈≈ This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

~ Mark Rothko ~ Latvian-American painter 1903–1970


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≈≈ If the man who paints only the tree...he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.

~ James Abbot McNeill Whistler ~ American-born, British-based painter 1834-1903



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≈≈ I like empty spaces that are no longer occupied, although you can tell that people were once there.

~ Dick Cole ~ California watercolor artist ?


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≈≈ To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.


~ Conrad Hall ~ American artist 1926-2003


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≈≈ But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, and were able to draw with their hands...horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle...

~ Xenophanes ~ Greek philosopher 570-480 BC


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≈≈ It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which... you may find really marvellous ideas.

~ Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ~ Italian polymath 1452–1519


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≈≈ I have meant what I have done. Or – I have often meant what I have done. Or – I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.


~ Jasper Johns ~ American artist 1930-


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≈≈ Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color – shadows define form.

~ Howard Pyle ~ American illustrator & writer 1853-1911


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≈≈ If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ 1807-1882



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≈≈ The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

~ Ezra Pound ~ American modernist poet 1885-1972


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≈≈ There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

~ Philip Guston ~ American artist 1913-1980


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≈≈ Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis ~ Greek writer 1883-1957


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≈≈ Sometimes I start in a very realistic fashion, and as I go on from one painting to another of the same kind, it becomes simplified until it can be nothing but abstraction.

~ Georgia O'Keeffe ~ American painter 1871-1986



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≈≈ True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

~ Jean Cocteau ~ French poet & filmmaker 1889 -1963


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≈≈ The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

~ Suzanne Langer ~ American philosopher of art 1895-1985


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≈≈ There was a reviewer... who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.

~ Jackson Pollock ~ American painter 1912-1956


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≈≈ It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals.

~ Esther Warner Dendel ~ American writer & artist 1910-2002


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≈≈ Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

~ Martha Graham ~ American dancer 1894-1991


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≈≈ If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.


~ Lao Tzu 老子 ~ Chinese philosopher 4th century B.C. ?


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"Arm of the Seine in the Fog" Artist, Claude Monet

≈≈ For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment.

~ Claude Monet ~ French Impressionist painter 1840-1926


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≈≈ For me, image-making is intutive and meditative. I may spend an hour waiting for the moment when then light transforms the ordinary into something mystical, surreal and poetic.


~ Richard Martin ~ American photographer


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≈≈ I have not tried to reproduce nature: I have represented it.

~ Paul Cezanne ~ French artist 1839-1906


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≈≈ Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

~ Charles Dickens ~ English novelist 1812-1870


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≈≈ I invent nothing, I rediscover.


~ Auguste Rodin ~ French sculptor 1840-1917


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