oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"But we may find it not so interesting to cook the same thing over and over again every day. It is rather tedious, you may say. If you lose yourself in the spirit of repetition it will become quite difficult, but it will not be difficult if you are full of strength and vitality. Anyway, we cannot keep still; we have to do something. So if you do something, you should be very observant, and careful, and alert. Our way is to put the dough in the oven and watch it carefully. Once you understand how the dough becomes bread, you will understand enlightenment. So how this physical body becomes a sage is our main interest. We are not so concerned about what flour is, or what dough is, or what a sage is. A sage is a sage. Metaphysical explanations of human nature are not the point."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"In order to lose themselves in God, the Sufis recite their own names, or the ninety-nine divine names, until they become meaningless. I long to travel that path. Perhaps I shall conclude by wearing away the Zahir simply through thinking of it again and again. Perhaps behind the coin I shall find God."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

Alvy Singer: [narrating] After that it got pretty late, and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again. I... I realized what a terrific person she was, and... and how much fun it was just knowing her; and I... I, I thought of that old joke, y'know, the, this... this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs." Well, I guess that's pretty much now how I feel about relationships; y'know, they're totally irrational, and crazy, and absurd, and... but, uh, I guess we keep goin' through it because, uh, most of us... need the eggs.

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"Love means giving what you don't have to someone who doesn't need it."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"Art is not merely a duplication of life. To assimilate art in life is different from art duplicating life."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"The harmony past knowing sounds
more deeply than the known."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion, these strategies must be removed to clear the way for something else–a condition which... resists analysis–and probably this is as it should be."

oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

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