inspiring words from matisse 'I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced
to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture.'

inspiration from Richard Diebenkorn " attempt what is not certain. certainty may or may not not come later. it may then be a valuable delusion."

Joan Didion inspires with " A hill is a transitional accommodation to stress, and ego may be a similar accommodation. A waterfall is a self-correcting maladjustment of stream to structure, and so, for all i know, is technique"