"...The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world..." Emma Goldman

"Art deals with things forever incapable of definition that belong to love, beauty, joy, and worship. The shapes, powers and glory of which are forever building, unbuilding, and rebuilding in each man's soul and in the soul of the whole world." Edwin Austin Abbey

"...Hurry ruins saints as well as artists..." Thomas Merton

"...Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take time to be true to themselves. And when the madness is upon them they argue that their very haste is a species of integrity..." Thomas Merton

 

"...Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet, some other saint...They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else's experiences or write somebody else's poems..."

Thomas Merton

"Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness." David Bohm

"art is the only way to run away without leaving home." Twyla Tharp

Dawn, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

An angel, robed in spotless white,

Bent down and kissed the sleeping Night.

Night woke to blush; the sprite was gone.

Men saw the blush and called it Dawn.

 

The Moon, by Sappho

The stars about the lovely moon
Fade back and vanish very soon,
When, round and full, her silver face
Swims into sight, and lights all space. 

 

 

How To Be An Explorer Of The World: Portable Life Museum, Keri Smith

"The fountain is my speech. The tulips are my speech. The grass and trees are my speech." George T. Delacorte

"Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water? All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea, and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday." Zora Neale Hurston

"But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean." H. P. Lovecraft

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment..." Monet

“If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” Charlie Parker

How To Be An Explorer Of The World: Portable Life Museum, Keri Smith

"...The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page..." St. Augustine

 

W.B. Yeats

"Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live." Remy De Gourmont

"...Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one. I do not see how the "fear" of God could have ever meant to me anything but the lowest prudential efforts to be safe, if I had never seen certain ominous ravines and unapproachable crags..." C.S. Lewis

"Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts." Walker Evans