Bob Dylan // "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”

sunrise // Bay Head, NJ

Joni Mitchell // "Everybody has a superficial side and a deep side, but this culture doesn’t place much value on depth...depth isn’t encouraged or understood. Surrounded by this shallow, glossy society we develop a shallow side...and we become attracted to fluff... But along with developing my superficial side, I always nurtured a deeper longing, so even when I was falling into the trap of that other kind of love, I was hip to what I was doing."

sunrise // Ithaca, NY

Charles Bukowski // "I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."

Matthew McConaughey // "All the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop to any of it."

sunrise // Bay Head, NJ

Rick Rubin // “Competition is a low vibration stimulus.”

Encinitas, CA - 10/18

Bruce Springsteen// “Everything dies, baby that's a fact but maybe everything that dies some day comes back.”

normandy beach, NJ // 10-12

Jack Kerouac // "Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."

Sunset // Catalina Island - 10/18

Rick Rubin // “Do what you can with what you have. Nothing is needed. And there are no excuses.”

Sunset // Encinitas, CA - 10/18

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. 

Sunset // Leucadia, CA - 10/18

Patti Smith // “I’m going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are that I’m self-conscious and often insecure, and my strong point is that I don’t feel any shame about it.”

Walt Whitman // “I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.”

Hermann Hesse // "This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...You must play your part and sing a song, one of your best."

Chuck Close // "The advice I like to give...is to not wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself...if you just get to work, something will occur to you."

Maya Angelou // “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” 

Paulo Coelo // "My heart is afraid it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.  "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.  And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of it's dreams."

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." // Pablo Picasso 

 “We couldn’t all be cowboys, some of us are clowns. Some of us are dancers on the midway, and roam from town to town. I hope that everybody can find a little flame.  Me, I just say my prayers then I just light myself on fire and I walk out on the wire once again.”

"Sensitive persons find our inartistic manner of existence oppressive and painful, and they withdraw from sight... I believe what we lack is joy...the conception of life as a happy thing, as a festival... But the high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy." ~ Hermann Hesse

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged.” ~  Lucille Ball

"Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” ~ Anthony Bourdain