“If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.”...

“What the new year brings to you will depend on a great deal on what you bring to the New Year.” – Vern Mclellan It has been a long while...

“The heart and mind are the true lens of the photographs.” – Yousuf Karsh As I mentioned during the previous blog post, there was a...

“Art is risk made visible” – Arno Rafael Minkkinen My workshop at the Griffin Museum of Photography with Arno Rafael Minkkinen is...

“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”...

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet. -- Anne Frank The marathon has come to...

I have been a fan for the work of the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki for many years. When I grew up in Hong Kong, I remember...

“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the...

“I’m usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be...

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy” -- Rumi I don’t feel well when I am not being creative. I love...

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul’s being. –Adyashanti One thing I appreciate the most with my...

Let her cry for she’s a lady Let her dream for she’s a child Let the rain fall down upon her She’s a free and gentle flower growing wild...

Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive. -- Elliot Erwitt This image of a weed basking in sunlight is my favorite black and...

Beautiful colors can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist’s talent with...

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward....

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need....

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has – Epictetus Merry Christmas! On...

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus I...

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I found that quite boring. For me, it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning...