March 2012
31 posts
“My last word is that it all depends on what you visualize.”
– Ansel Adams
“We tend to be blinded by our own works, and sometimes need to have our sight...”
– Gertjan Zwiggelaar
“They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that...”
– Picasso
“It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his...”
– Kandinsky
“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.”
– Leonard Cohen
“The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror… if...”
– Andre Breton
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest...”
– Goethe
“It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of...”
– George Eliot
“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love...”
– Myrtle Auvil
“You’re either on the bus or off the bus.”
– Thomas Wolfe
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know...”
– Paul Theroux
“When the snake decided to go straight, he didn’t get anywhere.”
– William Stafford
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”
– Beverly Sills
“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they...”
– Alexander Pope
“How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is...”
– George B. Leonard
“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some...”
– Stephen King
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to...”
– William Hazlitt
“The most important thing for me as a painter is to get out of my own way.”
– David Lloyd Glover
“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
“Home is where one starts from.”
– T.S. Eliot
“My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that...”
– Noel Coward
“For the warrior, there is no ‘better’ or ‘worse’;...”
– Paulo Coelho
“New roads: new ruts.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Many a painting has taken me on a wild goose chase far from where I thought the...”
– Rod Charlesworth
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see...”
– Thomas Carlyle
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.”
– Joseph Campbell
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk...”
– Buddha
“I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose...”
– Emily Bronte
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the...”
– Elizabeth Bowen