Prestel Art Quotes & Sayings

In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres. — Michael Bloomberg

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else. — Thomas Keating

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. — Jim Beaver

Mom, mom, mom, mom! A yowl rose from my gut, my bowels, my womb, raw as a birth cry but with no hope in it, a maddening howl, a roar, the water a wailing wall shattering around me. Unsyllabled, thoughtless, the cry rose from the oldest cells in my body. I hadn't known grief could be so primal, so crude. The violence shook me. When it stopped, I fell to my knees in the shower, and the water called to the water in me; I wanted to melt, to run down the drain and under the city to the creek and then to the river thirty miles away. Mom, mom, mom, mom! — Lorna Crozier

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."

-Jonathan Meese — Prestel Publishing

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. — Basil Rathbone

Desert lore. Scripture in the wasteland. The resonance of lonely places. — Stephen King

No one knows why dwarfs, who at home in the mountains lead quiet, orderly lives, forget it all when they move to the big city. Something comes over even the most blameless iron-ore miner and prompts him to wear chain-mail all the time, carry an ax, change his name to something like Grabthroat Shinkicker and drink himself into surly oblivion. — Terry Pratchett

Obscurity is never a virtue. — Roald Dahl