"All the same, everybody believes that the present is something, seeks out the different elements in this situation in order to compose the truth of it, the whole of it." - from Virginia Woolf "The Moment: Summer's Night"

“I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.” – oscar kokoschka

"a purposeless play"

"an affirmation of life – not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living".

- John Cage

The Object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. -Alberto Giacometti

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence,
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
- a portion of Desiderata by Max Ehrmann, (a poem I'm illustrating)