≈≈ Nonsense and beauty have close connections.


~ Edward Morgan Forster ~ English novelist, short story writer & essayist 1879-1970


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≈≈ To me it is interesting as a picture of my mother; but what can or ought the public to care about the identity of the portrait?

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



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≈≈ Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus ~ Roman Emperor & stoic philosopher 121–180


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≈≈ We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.


~ Cynthia Weil ~ American musician 1937-


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≈≈ In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.


~ Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit सिद्धार्थ गौतम) Nepalese spiritual teacher who became Buddha or "Awakened One" 563 BC - 483 BC


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≈≈ The artist reconstructs the random vocabulary of verticals, horizontals, diagonals, volumes, cubes, spheres, textures, darks, lights, patterns, and color into an order of vital relationships inextricably linked to the dynamics of life.

~ R. D. Abbey & G. William Fiero ~ American writers (?)



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≈≈ All creative people want to do the unexpected.


~ Hedy Lamarr ~ Austrian actress 1914-2000



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≈≈ Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

~ Oscar Wilde ~ Irish playwright, novelist, poet & short story writer 1854-1900


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≈≈ Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go dare before you die. / Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~ German poet, dramatist, novelist, theorist, humanist, scientist & painter 1749-1832


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≈≈ Well, I like, very much, fragmentation.

~ Fred Frith ~ English avant-garde guitarist & composer 1949-


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≈≈ I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~ Dutch Post-Impressionist painter 1853-1890


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≈≈ When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.


~ Bill Moyers ~ American journalist 1934-



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≈≈ A repeated shape is not actually the same – the more subtle, the more poetic this repeat is, the more we feel that resonant pulse.

~ Suzanne Northcott ~ Canadian artist 1954-


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≈≈ Your subjects have had a history – try to reveal it in your picture.

~ Howard Pyle ~ American illustrator 1853-1911


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≈≈ The challenge of the realist artist is to reach beyond just a representation and convey the essence of the scene, to capture something of the mood and sense of the place.

~ Marion Starr ~ Australian artist ?


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≈≈ To see is to be on guard, to wait for what emerges from the background, without any name, without any particular interest: what was silent will speak, what is closed will open and will take on a voice.

~ Paul Virilio ~ French writer 1932-


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≈≈ I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~ American poet 1809-1849



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≈≈ The highest form of beauty is where no form and no structure are left.

~ Hoseki Shin'ichi Hisamatsu ~ Japanese tea master & Zen enthusiast


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≈≈ I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways, rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood...

~ Graham A. Nelson ~ British mathematician & poet 1968-


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≈≈ No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

~ Arthur Erickson ~ Canadian architect 1924-


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≈≈ Art must take reality by surprise.

~ Françoise Sagan ~ French playwright & novelist 1935– 2004


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≈≈ I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

~ Andrew Wyeth ~ American realist painter 1917-


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≈≈ As an artist, you don't think about the... arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.


~ Michael Nesmith ~ American musician 1942-


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≈≈ All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

~ Richard Avedon ~ American photographer 1923-2004


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≈≈ My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

~ Agnes Martin ~ Canadian-American minimalist painter 1912-2004


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