I enjoy collecting Quotations from books, online sources and out and about in the world. I often think I will use quotations in my artwork, but rarely do. Perhaps you have noticed that illustrated quotations seem to have become a "thing" over the last ten years or so. There are many mass produced quotation-based objects to be found in the American marketplace. I don't know about you, but I get sick of being told to Live, Laugh and Love, etc. every time I walk through Michaels or Target.

In any case, here are a few recently Collected quotations, a hodgepodge 

with no particular theme in common:

Read at whim!

 - Randall Jarrell

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful 

than the risk it took to bloom.

 - Anais Nin

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

 - Aristotle

The acceptable and unacceptable are both acceptable.

 - Lao Tzu

One should never underestimate the power of books.

 - Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies, Henry Holt, 2005.

We only fail when we do not try.

- Sister Monica Joan, on Call the Midwife, Season 6, episode 2.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there 

is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

Vocatus atque non vocatus Deus aderit. 

(translation from Latin: Called or not called, God will be there.)

- This saying comes from a collection of adages collected by Erasmus, and came to my attention because it is inscribed over the doorway of the Houston Jung Center. Carl Jung had this inscription carved over the doorway of his house in Switzerland. It can also be seen on his tomb.

I took this photo of a piece of calligraphic art at a friend's home in Idaho. She is Catholic and I am Unitarian Universalist. Yet this quotation resonates with me. Walk your talk, more or less... Actually, I appreciate people who do not preach their beliefs unless called upon to do so. As a child growing up Catholic, St. Francis of Assisi was one of the few saints I really knew about. I loved images of him surrounded by birds and other creatures, protecting animal kind.

Wisdom comes from many sources!