"We write, we make music, we draw pictures because we are listening for meaning, for feeling, for healing. An artist at work is in a condition of complete and total faith."
– Madeleine L'Engle
"Pay attention. Be amazed. Tell about it."
– Mary Oliver
"That's why I create. That's why I make art. To understand myself and my place in the world."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
– Aristotle
"Know thyself."