"Creativity finds its soul when it embraces its shadow." -Thomas Moore-
"The first transcendent experience I remember was sitting underneath a huge golden maple tree in the fall and looking up and seeing the blue spaces between the leaves. I felt both beauty and sadness. I really wanted to respond to being alive, to learning about death and how those things mingle. It's what you paint about. That's why people care about it."
-Elizabeth Murray-
"We all tell stories that defend us in some way against nothingness." -Michael Ondaatje
"The intent of my work is to break out of a dark place." -Barbara Smith-
"Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her she is the mother of the arts and the origin of their marvels." -Francisco Goya
"As soon as I began painting what was in my head, the people around me were shocked."
-Leonor Fini-
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