"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself."

-- John Muir

#Life Quotes #Song Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.”
“â€ŽTo focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.”
“I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.”

Source : "The Way it Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin".
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications
“The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.”
“If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.”
“I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.”

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