contributor: Kathy Hussey

• Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught. Paul Desmond

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds Albert Einstein

• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing. Taste is the enemy of creativity. Pablo Picasso

• I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis

• People who make no noise are dangerous. Jean delaFontaine

• I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. Duke Ellington

• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde

• A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places. Paul Gardener

• The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon

• I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers. Only to hope it keeps asking the right questions. Grace Hartigan

• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Jalal Ud-Din Rumi