Bella Lewitsky

"To move freely, you must be deeply rooted."

-Bella Lewitsky

Bill Hemmerling

This bit of wisdom was on a painting I saw in a gallery on my recent New Orleans trip:

"Be encouraged / trouble don't last / wisdom / a diamond was at one time a piece of coal / and a frog was once a tadpole / a river a stream / a star just a beam"

-William Hemmerling, from the painting "Be Encouraged"

Michael Stipe

"Some I'm confused by what I think is really obvious.  But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious..."

-Michael Stipe