"I would submit that regardless of how many people one has touched in one's life, the very first time, whatever the occasion, is invariably interesting--to become creatures, rather than just voices and thoughts." [look at me by jennifer egan]

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web." Pablo Picasso

You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being. - Hermes

All of earth is crammed with heaven And every bush aflame with God But only those who see take off their shoes. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning<p> mygallery

Assīduūs ūsus unī reī dēditūs et ingenium et artem saepe vincīt.