Because i like to think i’m great. That and i have a thing for pithy quotes. Updated as i see fit.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C.S. Lewis

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see.
Giorgio Morandi

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something.
Walker Evans

I paint because I am a religious woman.
(I believe in eternity). Painting doesn’t freeze time.
It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn’t travel with the speed of light. That’s why dead painters shine so bright.
It’s okay to be the second sex.
It’s okay to be second best.
Painting is not a progressive activity.
Marlene Dumas – from “Women and Painting”

Studio Ghosts: When you’re in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you – your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics… and one by one if you’re really painting, they walk out. And if you’re really painting YOU walk out.
Philip Guston

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Dr. Spock

You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi

There are no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Dame Margot Fonteyn

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

When you get to the fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it’s the only one you have.
Emil’e Chartier

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
E. Jefferey Conklin & William Weil

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

…It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
Jonathan Ive

Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out.
James Oberg

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Planning is everything; plans are nothing.
Helmuth von Moltke

You can either get something done or get the credit for it, but not both.
(Reuben) Smeed’s Rule

Computers are worthless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Maps are useful but never neutral.
Lucy Fellowes

Letters are things, not pictures of things.
Eric Gill

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
Karim Rashid

Ease of use and ease of learning are not the same.
Katherine Haramundanis

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.
Tehyi Hsieh

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers.
Carl Sagan

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science—the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology, and psychology.
The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.
Clement Mok

Design is intelligence made visible.
Don Newgren

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Victor Papanek

Everyone is a lot of people to design for.
Joshua Rose

If you begin to think you’re changing the culture of the world,
just ask your mom what she thinks you do for a living.
Jurgen Stringenz