'I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.'
~ Vincent Van Gogh

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

"Those who follow are always behind." 


~ A Y Jackson

"I wish America had more engineers than lawyers" 


 Barrack Obama

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness.."

(Kahlil Gibran)

"The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist. What that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings."

(Plato)

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

~ Buckminster Fuller

"Each time a piece goes out, I start on a new piece, so there is renewal after renewal. It's like picking a flower: Each time you pick one, a new one blooms."

~ Sam Maloof

"There is a communion between an object maker and the material he is working with. And there is a triune between the object maker, his material and his client. And then there is something much greater, that transcends into God the creator of all things, who uses our hands as his tools to make these beautiful objects...Ego destroys."

~ Sam Maloof 1916-2009

"To copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility."

(Pablo Picasso)