Tom Shakespeare

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Erica Jong

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Barbara Hepworth

Every child is an artist, The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

We are rich in proportion to the things we can leave alone.

Henry David Thoreau

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Job 28.18

Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named ‘fair competition’ and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. We have profoundly forgetten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.

Thomas Carlyle

On every side now we can see people busily engaged in sawing off the branches on which they (along with many others) are sitting, intent only on getting those branches to market before the price of timber falls.

Mary Midgeley

People must choose whether to be rich in things, or in the freedom to use them.

Ivan Illich

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

Emma Goldman

It’s seldom anything of no value comes to any harm.

Percy Ward Parker