“I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing,
but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming,
and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will.”

                                                                                                                                                    – Wendell Berry

“I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that… There are not too many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human being… I want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice… You have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you’re playing, that’s when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days, but you want to get to this place where they exist.”

– Sonny Rollins

“I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that… There are not too many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human being… I want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens…

You have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you’re playing, that’s when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days, but you want to get to this place where they exist.”

– Sonny Rollins

“There are things that are not sayable,

that’s why we have art.”

                                             – Leonora Carrington

I suspect that what you’re looking for is something that will actually confirm that you’re a human being.
We all have this terrible feeling of isolation and loneliness.
Art is a signpost.
It’s the thing that we do that makes us realize that we’re not alone.
It’s the communication of the human spirit.
It’s the one area where you mustn’t have caution or inhibition.
You have to be prepared to crash your plane and walk away from it.

                                                                                    – David Bowie

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on Leonardo da Vinci–

“What an artist brings to the world is a way of gazing into it.

Can you look at it from my eyes?

That’s the greatest gift an artist brings.”

“The artist is the medium

between his fantasies

and the rest of the world.”

                                                                                           –Federico Fellini

The object isn’t to make art,

it’s to be in that wonderful state

that makes art inevitable.

              – Robert Henri

“The world is full of magic things,

patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”

                                                  – William Butler Yeats.

If you want to know

where your heart is,

look to where your mind

goes when it wanders.

                                                                – Walt Whitman