I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given the mind rests satisfied and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~ American poet, novelist & editor 1836-1907




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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.


~ Henry James ~ American writer 1843-1916




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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

~ Lillian Smith ~ American novelist 1867-1966





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Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

~ George H. Lewes ~ English philosopher & critic 1817-1878




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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer~ German philosopher 1788-1860






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As forms, architectural elements are often complex and invariably interesting foils for light and shadow.

~ Michael Nevin ~ Contemporary American artist




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Nature is constantly imitating art.

~ Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde ~ Irish playwright, author & poet 1854-1900




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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

~ Samuel Johnson ~ English author 1709-1784



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Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

~ Charles Hawthorne ~ American portrait & genre painter 1872-1930




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Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

~ Nicholson Baker ~ American novelist 1957-





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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

~ John Berger ~ English art critic, novelist & painter 1926-





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I don't know where I'm going. If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't go there.

~ Frank Gehry ~ Canadian/American architect 1929-



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To understand is to perceive patterns.

~ Isaiah Berlin ~ Russian philosopher 1909-1997




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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

~ Karl Kraus ~ Austrian writer, journalist & satirist 1874-1936




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If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

~Tom Wilson ~ American cartoonist 1931-1978




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The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

~ Sol Hurok ~ Russian-born American impresario 1888-1974




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So, a word is worth a thousand pictures?

~ Bruce Wood ~ American illustrator 1970-2007




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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

~ Anna Letitia Barbauld ~ English poet 1743-1825






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If you are under control you lose the danger of glimpsing an unknown realm.

~ Kazuaki Tanahashi (棚橋一晃) ~ Japanese calligrapher, author & Zen teacher 1933-




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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

— Henri-Louis Bergson ~ French philosopher 1859-1941




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We are all prisoners of our own reality. Only art can make us step out of it.

~ Paol Serret ~ French born artist & musician 1956-




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Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

~ Charlie Dunbar Broad ~ English epistemologist, philosopher of science 1887 -1971




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Line is a rich metaphor for the artist. It denotes not only boundary, edge or contour, but is an agent for location, energy, and growth. It is literally movement and change – life itself.

~ Lance Esplund ~ American art critic ?




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One of the joys of photography is that you never know what will come at you from around the next corner.

~ Tom Ang ~ American photographer & writer




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Not all who wander are lost.

~ John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ~ English writer, poet, philologist 1892-1973




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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

~ Albert Einstein ~ German physicist ~ 1879=1955





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