Artist Statement

"You're sitting there with your muse, and your muse is telling you something, and you’re following it, and you end up the next day looking at it and thinking "what the hell was the muse saying to me?"-Nathan Oliveira

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."-George Bernard Shaw

"I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."-Vincent Van Gogh

"Art is an intersection of many human needs."- Carl Andre

"Some would try for fame and glory. Others just like to watch the world."-Daniel Johnston"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -Scott Adams

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”-Sylvia Plath

"Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer... but never judge it."- Nick Bantock

"Art is our memory of love. The most an artist can do through their work is say, let me show you what I have seen, what I have loved, and perhaps you will see it and love it too".-Annie Bevan

"Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it."- John Chamberlain

“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.”-Rainer Maria Rilke