"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." Ovid, 43BC-17AD

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery." Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.

"Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars." Serbian Proverb

"This old village--
not a single house
without persimmon trees."

Matsuo Basho, lived 1644-1694

"Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will." Paul Klee

"There are universal shapes to which everyone is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their conscious control does not shut them off." Henry Moore

"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality." Hannah Arendt

"If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint." Edward Hopper

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." Edvard Munch

"A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." Johann von Goethe

"What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air." Thomas Bailey Aldrich

"A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side." Anne Morrow Lindbergh