"An active line on a walk moving freely, without goal. A walk for walk's sake."

Paul Klee - Pedagogical Sketchbook

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A creative artist works on his next composition

because he was not satisfied with his previous one."

Dimitri Shostakovich

"An artist cannot speak about his art any more

than a plant can discuss horticulture."

Jean Cocteau

"I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting.

It's in the subconscious."

Andrew Wyeth

When you follow your bliss...

doors will open where you would not have thought there could be doors;

and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else."

Joseph Campbell

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Carolyn Heilbrun

But if a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses,

believing that technique alone will make him a good poet,

he and his sane companions never reach perfection,

but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Plato, Phaedrus 245

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams

and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined

he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh