Aphorisms are a great way to start the week. Every Monday I will add a new quote. Click on the dates in the left hand menu to view some tiny written gems.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

                                  -Saul Bellow

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

                                  -Scott Adams

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."

                          -Pablo Picasso

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

                          -Carl Sagan

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

                          -Oscar Wilde