Douglas MooreZart

“The imagination is not a state. It is the human existence itself.”

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

“Art is just a container you pour yourself into.”

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

“I confess I do not believe in time … And the highest enjoyment of timelessness – in a landscape selected at random – is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love.”

“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty…”

”Art transcends all human boundaries. It is a gift of almost inexplicable, magical energy. When our hearts, through our senses, are touched by art, our lives are enhanced.”

“Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we…”

“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits…”

In Memory: “Passion and the desire to communicate, that is the key.”

“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention”

“Life is it’s own answer… Live as well as possible. Expect no more. Destroy nothing. Humble nothing. Look for fault in nothing. Leave unsullied and untouched all that is beautiful.‘

”From my viewpoint, the value of the worn paperback with your initial impressions in the margins of a book you love is far more valuable than the first edition with the good dust jacket.”

In Memory: “Have a go. Anybody can do it.”

“None of us are free, if one of us is chained”, “If you don’t say it’s wrong then that says it right”

”All art is an act of faith — a faith that life itself, with all its tragedies and flaws, can be improved by creating something new and putting it out into the world.”

“I couldn’t be happier than when I am standing out on a cold winter morning waiting for the right light.”