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I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. (Morris Graves)

This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! (Bahá'u'lláh)

Where the river foams and surges to the sea
Silver figures rise to find me
Wise and as daring
Following the heart's cry.
I am that deep pool
I am that dark spring
Warm with a mystery
I may reveal to you
(Riverdance, The Heart's Cry)

It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. (Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes)

There are two ways to look at life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is. (Albert Einstein)

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born. (Isadora Duncan)

Truly the camera widens our vision and love for the natural world around us. As an artist, my greatest challenge is to constantly switch gears from the fascinating realism and meticulous detail of photography to the personal vision of my own interpretation. (Veronica Stensby)

Representational painting has no need anymore to get it right. A snapshot records; a painter interprets and abstracts. (Bob Young)

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. (Persian proverb)

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(e. e. cummings, XAIPE, 1950)

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings; Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers; the winds will blow their freshness into you and the storms their energy, and cares will drop off like autumn leaves. (John Muir)

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth. (Joseph Campbell)

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. (Henry Miller)

... eventually the gloomy darkness of the outer world will disappear, and the light of reality will shine until the whole earth will be effulgent with its glory. ('Abdu'l-Bahá)

Praise be to God! the lights of the Morn of Eternity have cast their rays upon that city,and in the future it will become enlightened, and luminous stars will dawn, gleam and sparkle from its horizon. Today the Sun of the Most Great Guidance hath appeared with the greatest splendor from the horizon of the world, and the rays of the Sun of Truth shine with utmost light and power therefrom. Therefore, the world hath become another world and the bounties, other bounties. ('Abdu'l-Bahá)

If you could understand a single grain of wheat, you would die of wonder. (Martin Luther)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
(John Keats: Endymion)

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere. (Empedocles)

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakable perfect miracle. (Walt Whitman)

Should it be God's intention, there would appear out of the forests of celestial might the lion of indomitable strength whose roaring is like unto the peals of thunder reverberating in the mountains. (Bahá’u'lláh)

To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. (Vincent van Gogh)

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet. (Ansel Adams)

Should your glance on mornings lovely
Lift to drink the heaven's blue
Or when sun, veiled by sirocco,
Royal red sinks out of view -
Give to Nature praise and honor.
Blithe of heart and sound of eye,
Knowing for the world of colour
Where its broad foundations lie.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

... the mystery of eternal might vibrates within the innermost being of all created things."
(The Báb, Cited in Shoghi Effendi, The Advent of Divine Justice)

There was a time when meadow, grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
(William Wordsworth)

The last mad throb of red just as it turns green; the ultimate shriek of orange calling all the blues of heaven for relief and support... each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself on forming the first rainbow. (Charles Demuth)

The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts. (James Allen)

I work in a meditative manner. My visual language is pulled from my unconscious and I express in my work what I cannot express with words. (Pat Gentenaar-Torley)