“Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you’re worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning…What are you planning?”

The War on Drugs - An Ocean in Between the Waves

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone. -Franz Kline

“Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.” — Patti Smith

“Dylan and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn’t know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, and that can mean vast things. That sort of mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song.” — Jeff Buckley

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Hole

Brian Eno - Making Space (full album)

Interpol - Rest My Chemistry

That feeling inside when you just sit and absorb the fact that your dreams are rapidly becoming your reality. The feeling that all your insides are exposed and you love them. It’s freedom. It’s true love.

I will always find you.

“Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being.” — Franki Durbin

The essence of existence knows you more than you know yourself at this very moment… that is why you must always flow with life.

The universe makes you offers consistently, and you are the only one who will know deep down whether the opportunity is for growth or not.

“Life is not happening to you… Life is responding to you.”

"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are."

“The ancient Pythagorean theory of harmony known as Musica Universalis says that everything in the Universe originated from a single sound; a single vibration. Atoms, planets and people were all believed to have resonated into existence like music. More than just a religious belief, the theory came from studying proportions in planetary cycles, musical scales and the geometry of life. At the center of this ancient harmonic science was the Divine Proportion.” — Richard Merrick

“Every time you follow your intuition, your personal vibration intensities. This can be likened to turning up the volume on a stereo. The more your personal vibration is intensified the more you will pull people into your life who carry messages for you. It is a universal law.” — Denise Linn

“Your vibration doesn’t have to be strong, it just has to be pure. You don’t have to think about something over and over again. You just have to think about it purely. You just have to not contradict it with your own vibration.”

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent.” — Alex Grey

Your thoughts, choices, and actions must harmonize with your desires… your heart.

Patti Smith - Charleston House & The Bloomsbury Group

Ryan Adams - If I Am A Stranger

my new companion

"An increase in light gives an increase in darkness." Sam Francis

The Black Ryder - Rise

The Smiths - Asleep

“It’s more like I’m having an experience than making a picture.” — Cy Twombly

“Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.” ― William S. Burroughs

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” ― Hermann Hesse

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.” ― Henry Miller

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

“I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false” ― Gerhard Richter

Golden

My photographs are not planned or composed in advance, and I do not anticipate that the onlooker will share my viewpoint. However, I feel that if my photograph leaves an image on his mind, something has been accomplished. Robert Frank

Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank

“I am always looking outside, trying to say something that is true. But maybe nothing is really true. Except what's out there. And what's out there is constantly changing.” ― Robert Frank

Paris, 1949

Robert Frank

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” ― Albert Einstein

“One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” ― Sophocles

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.” ― Henry Miller

Soulsavers - Ask The Dust

07 - On a Beach

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

You're It - Alan Watts

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.” ― Hermann Hesse

“Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything.”

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” ― J.M. Barrie

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” ― Henry David Thoreau

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent van Gogh

Spiritualized-Stay with Me

Spectrum - (I Love You) To The Moon And Back 7"

My sunglasses are like my guitar. -Patti Smith

My Artwork