The best artists know what to leave out.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right from the beginning, but art is treated as a gift of innate genius, something we either have or don't.