Bukowski
"After running full speed through the green segment of your route, you reach a point where you realize that more care is needed. An imaginary yellow light is flashing and demands that you make more exact use of the Orienteering skills you have learned. It is a matter of locating and passing all the checkpoints you have on your map that lead you in the right direction."
Bjorn Kjellstrom, Be Expert with Map and Compass (1976)
Detail, "The Give", Photo by Jon Goering
"Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation."
Phillip Guston
"When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
"I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?"
Philip Guston
"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.�
Henry Miller
"One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come."
Gertrude Stein
"My mind I send
with the moon
that goes beyond the mountain,
but what of this body
left behind in darkness?"
Saigyo
"Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues."
Edward Abbey
"That is what it finally comes down to: to see everything, all elements equal, in life; even the mystical, even death. No one thing may extend beyond a second, each must reign its neighbor in. Then each has its own meaning and, what is most important: their sum will be a harmonious whole full of peace and security and equilibrium... And you must, if you wish to be artists, grant all forces the right to lift you and press you down, to shackle you and set you free. It's only a game, don't be afraid. Wait. There is so much newness crowded before me, I cannot name it nor sort ot out. But gaze for a while into forest and ocean, into the great beneficence of this splendor, and wait: clarity will come.
And clarity arrived."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
Edward Abbey