big A art

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts

Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

Dave Hickey

Art, like money, has no inherent value. Both are embodiments of a promise–in the case of art, that the experience of beauty can be sustained by owning it.

Bill Moyers

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

the mysterious

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.

::: Albert Einstein :::

shock of the new

“Fear always accompanies the making of art and is generated by the shock of seeing an idea take form – a sculpture in the mind is safe and secure – a work rarely behaves as I intend, uncertainty and unpredictability are always present – even in a work as familiar as this one. Whatever the result, it is my responsibility which I take seriously – it has to be right, whatever right means.”

pretty little bits

“The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way.”  N. T. Wright