What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between…this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist. – Federico Fellini
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs
I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too. – Dusty Baker
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. – Robert Lanza
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. – Helen Frankenthaler
