“The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.” ― Emily Dickinson

“When freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God” ~ Pope Benedict XVI

"It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the best paintings." ~ Saint Andre Bessette

Painting is silent poetry.

"Life is a world that is a gratuitous gift...to be sculpted. You sculpt such a life, you do not amass it. It all depends on recognition of the gift - everything does." ~ Dr. David M. Walen, from the lecture: Lewis Ficton: Narnia and the Storied Moral World

In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive. ~ C. S. Lewis