Picasso insisted that everything was miraculous - it was miraculous he said, that one did not melt in one's bath.

We learn only what we do; and what we do, we become. Live, therefore, in the ways you desire to have as part of your personality. Practice being the person you wish to become. In all of life, always do what you wish to learn..."

...and the bird's song, and the people's song and the song of life will become one. -Hopi Kachina Song_

"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand... In all our processes of education, this attribute should be sustained, nourished, and guaranteed, unfortunately it is too soon lost."

"The artist gives form to ideas which makes the spirit of the time." -Ernest Mundt-

All the genuine deep delight of life is in showing people the mudpies you have made, and life is at its best when we confidently recommend our mudpies to each other's sympathetic consideration. -j.m. thorburn-

Meaning is not in things but in between; in the iridescence, in the interplay; in the interconnections at the intersections, at the crossroads. -Norman O. Brown-

We have no art say the Balinese, we just do the best we can.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a questions of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing. He does not have to be a painter or sculptor to be an artist. He can work in any medium. He simply has to find the gain in the work itself, not outside it... art tends towards balance, order, judgement of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living - very good things for anyone to be interested in.

Ever since the beginning there have been artists who have found in the simple life about them the wonderful and the beautiful, and through the fact of this inspiration have sensed the way to make the combination of form and color we know as art.