THE SHAPE OF ABSENCE

  "Between bloom and memory lies nagori—the beauty of what lingers."

"People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject, paint a sense of place." 

 Paul Strisik

"We do not remember days, 

we remember moments."

      Cesare Pavese 

"When I take a photo I snap a small part of what I see. When I draw what I see, I capture a snapshot of life at that time."                        S.R.Hogan

"Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen."

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness."

Mark Rothko

“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” 

Margaret Peters 

"A heart may burn, A heart may swoon, nobody owns the moon"

Michael Genner   

"We are constantly moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."

Doris Lessing

"The  meaning is not in the message."

Hugh McKay   

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”

 Edgar Allen Poe

"Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next." 

Victoria Finlay

"There is no colour in nature to surpass it.

 Robert Lynd, "In Defence of Pink," 1937

"The ones that search the most are the ones that find the most". Unknown

"The body says what words cannot."

Martha Graham

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.” 

Vincent Van Gogh

"I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen." — Frederick Franck

“Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”

Pablo Picasso