Jillian Lea

“cause the life of painting and making is a matter of double knowledge so that your own hands will reveal a world to you to which your mind’s eye, your conscious eye, is often blind.”
― Ali Smith, How to Be Both

“When things are as bad as ever they can be you cease to mind them much. You set your teeth and battle with the fates”
― Georgina Howell, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations

“THE ESSENCE OF YOUR DESIRE IS A FEELING”
― Danielle LaPorte, The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul

“If there is a main problem in American art today,” says critic Tom Piazza, “it is not that we need the new to unshackle us from a suffocating and outmoded tradition. The new is constantly pumped out, by the ton and 24 hours a day, into the esthetic rivers, reservoirs and gullies of our culture, and nobody needs to go looking for it. With all the economic force of corporate profit and advertising behind it, pop culture, with its Billy the Kid ethos, has in fact become the new establishment. In a truly Orwellian irony, the new is the status quo.”36”
― James Bau Graves, Cultural Democracy: The Arts, Community, and the Public Purpose