Demiurgic Disposition

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Flowering Flections

No great artist ever sees things as 

they really are. If he did, he would cease 

to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde

Good art is art that allows you to enter 

it from a variety of angles and to emerge

with a variety of views. ~Mary Schmich

Tellurian Murmurs

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as

to have friends at a distance; they make the

latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

And forget not that the earth delights to 

feel your bare feet and the winds long to 

play with your hair. ~Khalil Gibran

Solitary Stimulation

The monotony and solitude of a life

stimulates the creative mind. ~Albert Einstein

There is a fellowship more quiet even than

solitude, and which, rightly understood, 

is solitude made perfect. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Consequential Infloresence

Nature is an infinite sphere of which 

the center is everywhere and the

circumference nowhere. ~Blaise Pascal

There is no glory in a star or blossom till

looked upon by a loving eye; There is no

fragrance in April breezes till breathed with

joy as they wander by. ~William C. Bryant

Dewdrop Mist

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ~Robert Motherwell

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not. ~Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Illuminating Propensity

We cannot hold a torch to light another's

path without brightening our own. ~Ben Sweetland

We are each gifted in a unique and important 

way. It is our privilege and our adventure to

discover our own special light. ~Evelyn Dunbar

Placid Patience

Have patience. All things are difficult

before they become easy. ~Saadi

Patience and perseverance have a magical

effect before which difficulties disappear and

obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams

Perennial Party

In the end, it's not the years in your life that

count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln

One way to get the most out of life is to look

upon it as an adventure. ~William Feather

Visionary Imagination

Why does the eye see a thing more 

clearly in dreams than the imagination 

when awake? ~Leonardo da Vinci

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. ~Carl Sagan