“To create one's own world takes courage.” Georgia O'Keeffe

"All nature is but Art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And spite of pride, in erring reasons' spite,
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Essay on Man

"On those who step in the same river, different and different waters flow . . . " Heraclitus, 6th century BC, FRAGMENT 12 (quoted in Arius Didymus)

"There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are." HH the Dalai Lama

"Art is not what you see but what you make others see." Edgar Degas

"The impermanence of all forms is the starting point of Buddhism. The Buddha taught that ‘all compounded things are impermanent’, and that all suffering in the world arises from our trying to cling to fixed forms - objects, people or ideas - instead of accepting the world as it moves and changes. Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics, p211

"I do believe in time,"I just think our intuition about it is wrong." Brian Greene, physicist, 2004

"As your insight into the ultimate nature of reality is deepened you will perceive phenomena as illusion-like" HH the Dalai Lama