Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite–only a sense of ‘the’ existence ‘of God’. (quotes mine)
Provence Studios
public art | sculpture | jewelry
Provence Studios
public art | sculpture | jewelry
Dana Provence
Mark twain
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Yogi Berra
You got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there
Nelson Mandela
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Luck is the residue of design — Branch Rickey
Luck is the residue of design — Branch Rickey
going somewhere?
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ::: Lao Tzu :::
the architecture of happiness
“We call a thing beautiful when it contains in a concentrated form those qualities, which we personally or as a society lack. We respect a style that can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave.”…
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.…
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
tickling stones
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. Louise Nevelson
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…