The End

It is good to have an end to journey toward,
 but it is the journey that matters in the end.  

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

A good painter needs only three colours: black, white and red. 

~ Titian

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill 
except for learning how to grow in rows.  

~ Doug Larson

The picture must radiate light, 
the bodies have their own light which they consume to live: 
they burn, they are not lit from outside. 

~ Egon Schiele

Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it. 

~ Gary Zukav

We are here to help each other through this thing, whatever it is. 

~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. 
It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 
'Just watch!'


~ Bill Bradley

Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind 

and I don't worry about my destiny.

~ Carl Sandburg

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere. 

~ John Corbett

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, 
so that when I’ve gone and come back I’ll find it at home.  

 ~ Rumi

We do not remember days,
we remember moments.


~ Cesare Pavese

There are two ways of spreading light: 

to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

~ Henry David Thoreau

I don't know what's on the other side.

~  Patrick Swayze

  

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; 
it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.


~ Horace

Nature will bear the closest inspection. 

She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,

 and take an insect view of its plain.

~ Henry David Thoreau

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

~ W. B. Yeats

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective,
an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic,
an eye which does not respond to the name of everything
but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.

~ Stan Brakhage

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. 

~ Robert Delaunay