And then there are people who just arrive from afar...

"He said later it was propinquity. For him all relationships fell into patterns. You fell into propinquity or distance." — Michael Ondaatje

from The English Patient

I find that painting is sometimes akin to dream, magic and a landscape not of my own making.

"Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it."

                               — 

Kara Walker

This is my future.

“I will spend the rest of my life assembling my own mind and my own soul. I will take care of my body carefully, not that it may any more please a man, but because it houses me and therefore I am dependent upon it.”

                        — Pearl S. Buck