I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

Thomas Friedman

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Phil Collins

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Clark Kerr

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens of London, but there was something of the woman's original nature left in her still; and when she heard a light step approaching the door opposite to that by which she had entered, and thought of the wide contrast which the small room would in another moment contain, she felt burdened with the sense of her own deep shame: and shrunk as though she could scarcely bear the presence of her with whom she had sought this interview.

Charles Dickens

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.

Mollie Marti

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

Paul Cezanne

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Albert Einstein

AwakeShakeDreams from your hair My pretty child, my sweet one.Choose the day and choose the sign of your dayThe days divinityFirst thing you see.

The Doors

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.

Samuel M. Shoemaker

Dreams are pathways for the heart. - Reminim the gnome

T. William Watts

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Carl Gustav Jung