Russell Chatham Quotes & Sayings

There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it. — Russell Chatham

(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement — Russell Chatham

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete ... to be completed in the mind of the viewer. — Russell Chatham

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them. — Russell Chatham

My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poor house , not to mention devote himself to something he does not love. Instead, I discovered an interesting back road to the unknown , and deliberately without a safety net. — Russell Chatham