The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
-Piet Mondrian
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
-Edvard Munch
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
Drawing is not an exercise.
Exercise is sitting on a stationary bicycle and going nowhere.
Drawing is being on a bicycle and taking a journey.
For me to succeed in drawing, I must go fast and arrive somewhere.
The quest is to keep the thing alive...
--Jim Dine, 2003
And a final thing about crows - I had no idea I'd be going on like this - is that they look black to us, but to birds, they're as insanely coloured as parakeets and peacocks - human colour perception is missing a small patch of the spectrum that only birds can see. Imagine if we could see the world like birds, even briefly. Everything would be wondrous. Which is another reason why I only wear black. Who knows what you're missing when you look at me.
-Douglas Coupland.
