“You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won’t come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.”

Cory Booker

“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there’s a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love….You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”

Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist

“The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but take leap after leap in the dark.”

Agnes de Mille

“Alchemy…is an encounter with the substances in the world around us, an encounter that is not veiled by science…alchemy is the best and most eloquent way to understand how paint can mean….”

James Elkins, What Painting Is