All finite things reveal infinitude.

Theodore Roethke ~ American poet 1908-1963




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Anything simple always interests me.

~ David Hockney ~ English artist 1937-




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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

~ Saul Bellow ~ American novelist 1914-2005




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Never exclude anything - open your eyes for the unknown and uncommon and take your camera to collect these ideas. It may be worthwhile.

~ Petra Voegtle ~ Contemporary German-born artist




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You are the camera, your eyes are the shutters. What you absorb through them is what you paint and it's you that is mixing the colours, not the camera.

~ Richard F. Barber ~ British artist 1942-




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Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

~ Francis Bacon ~ Irish-born British figurative painter 1909-1992




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If you look at a thing 999 times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it for the 1000th time, you are in danger of seeing it for the first time.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~ English writer 1874–1936




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Not so much looking for the shape / as being available / to any shape that may be / summoning itself / through me / from the self not mine but ours.

~ A. R. Ammons ~ American poet 1926-2001




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night mail



My songs are just little letters to me.

~ Ani DiFranco ~ American musician 1970-




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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

~ Luis Barragan ~ Mexican architect 1902-1988





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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

~ Herbert Spencer ~ English philosopher 1820-1903






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You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

~ Robin Williams ~ American actor & comedian 1951-




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collapsible conversation




What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

~ Edgar Degas ~ French artist 1834-1917




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