“ Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. Walter Sickert Painter
“ Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. Walter Sickert Painter
“ The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. Walter Sickert Painter
“ To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. Walter Sickert Painter
“ Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids. Rob Sheffield Journalist
“ Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today. Bill Moyers Former White House Press Secretary
“ There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials… I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness. Ptolemy Writer
“ All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength. Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
“ Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise. Sharon Gannon Teacher