"You cannot depend upon your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." --Mark Twain

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." --Herman Melville

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." ~Edgar Degas

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

--Mark Twain

"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away." --Tom Waits

"The moment when you reload your rifle." --Dylan's definition of peace

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."-- Albert Einstein

"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig."

- Proverb

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Pablo Picasso

A person will stand for a long time with their mouth open before a roast duck flies into it. Chinese Proverb.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."

--General John Sedgwick (1813-1864), last words

"Time flies like an arrow,

fruit flies like a banana." --Groucho Marx

“The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally;

for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance,

you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

You have to put a "box" around it because otherwise,

what is that shit on the wall?” --Frank Zappa

"Art is the most delicious salve. It heals, it renews, it awakens, it sets me free It may not be a cure, but it can transform pain into something less ugly, something that can only enrich who we already are and that in and of itself is a miracle. I am an artist because I am also a survivalist." ~most beautifully stated. thankyou Jennifer Summer, [artist/photographer, flickr-ite]

if i like your stuff, i'd love to barter pieces with other artists