“Dream delivers us to a dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue…”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”.
-Herman Melville
“We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.”
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
-Mark Twain
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen
“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.”
-Steve McCurry
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“I mean, Led Zeppelin didn’t write tunes that everyone liked…They left that to the Bee Gees.”
Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers), Wayne’s World
“I sing my heart out to the wide open spaces
I sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I sing my vision to the sky-high mountains
I sing my song to the free.”
-Pete Townshend
“Handsome is as handsome does.”
-J.R.R. Tolkien
“I have a thing for tools.”
-Tim Allen
“Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.”
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Eos rose from her bed, where she lay by haughty Tithonos, to carry her light to men and to immortals.”
-Homer, Iliad 11. 1 ff (trans. Lattimore)
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.”
― Suzy Kassem
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Welcome, Lord Vader. This is an unexpected pleasure.”
-Moff Jerjerrod, Star Wars Episode VI, Return of the Jedi
Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
-Patricia Briggs
“Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, that I may see my shadow as I pass.”
-William Shakespeare, Richard III (1597)
“After all, the thing that looks most ordinary might be the thing that leads you to victory.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
“Best analytical skill is to find the simplest solution.”
― Sonal Takalkar
“If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.”
– Paul Arden
“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“Express gratitude for the greatness of small things.”
-Richie Norton