Suzanne Roq

“That means, of course, that ‘good art’ varies from one person to another, doesn’t it? And that good art can come from a child or a master. I don’t think the critics, especially the moderns, appreciate that idea very much. I think they like telling us what’s legitimate as art, what has worth and what doesn’t.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“I wonder why we find it so uncomfortable to maintain relationships with those who have sauntered to goodness elsewhere and found it.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor

“It’s hard enough to define what art is, much less ‘good art.’ I wonder if there is such a thing. Maybe there are just good responses. But I guess if a work of art makes us see something familiar in a new way or makes us feel something we ought to have felt all along or shows us our place in the world more clearly, maybe then it qualifies as ‘good.’ If it makes us better somehow, maybe that’s what gives it value.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“Help me hold what is beautiful in the world, and even though it contains unexpected ashes and terrible tears, remind me it also holds the source of life.”
― Lore Ferguson Wilbert, The Understory: An Invitation to Rootedness and Resilience from the Forest Floor