March 2012
1 post
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the...”
– Elizabeth Bowen
February 2012
15 posts
“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path....”
– Nick Bantock
“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
– Fred Allen
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...”
– Douglas Adams
“To get where you want to go you can’t only do what you like.”
– Peter Abrahams
“I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.”
– Paul Simon
“Sometimes it seems to me that time and memory are laid out in a secret geography...”
– Rebecca Solnit
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
– Dalai Lama
“You can never learn less. You can only learn more.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“If you don’t change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao-Tse
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin
“The illusion of knowledge is more detrimental to growth than ignorance, because...”
– Jerry Uelsmann
“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except...”
– John Fowles
“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the...”
– Aldous Huxley
“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”
– Albert Einstein
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
– John Berryman
September 2011
5 posts
“Fame is … the sum of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new...”
– Rilke
“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.”
– Helen Keller
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really...”
– Steve Jobs
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
– Steve Jobs
August 2011
30 posts
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where...”
– Steve Jobs
“Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as...”
– Oscar Wilde
“We are star-stuff.”
– Carl Sagan
“Bad artists always admire each others work.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Art is coming face to face with yourself.”
– Jackson Pollock
“Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“Creativity in general may require a certain disarmament of the ego.”
– Warren Criswell
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
– Emily Bronte
“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.”
– Louise Bourgeois
“All that we are not stares back at what we are.”
– W. H. Auden
“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was...”
– Muhammad Ali
“Spontaneity needn’t suffer from preplanning.”
– James McFarlane
“Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers–-& never...”
– Marc Chagall
“One must always be careful not to let one’s work be covered with moss.”
– Marc Chagall
“I passionately hate the idea of being “with it.” An artist has...”
– Orson Welles
“How glorious it is – and also how painful – to be an exception.”
– Alfred de Musset
“All our interior world is reality, & that, perhaps, more so than our...”
– Marc Chagall
“Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.”
– Leonard Cohen
“Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.”
– Tallulah Bankhead
“The more you create, the more you become the truly unique human being you are...”
– Cristina Acosta
“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”
– Winston Churchill
“Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.”
– Constantin Brancusi
“The first rule of holes: When you’re in one, stop digging.”
– Molly Ivins
“Learn to hide your need and show your skill.”
– Jim Rohn
“What I say to an artist is, “When you can’t paint - paint.”
– Joyce Cary
“It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great...”
– Loren Eiseley
“Great thoughts, like great deeds, need no trumpet.”
– James M. Bailey
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
– George Eliot