Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen. – Orhan Pamuk Olamelikan Abatan, Lady, 2021 Mixed media, incl. charcoal, pencil on paper & Dutch Wax cloth in artist's frame 4 7.25 x 39.375 ins #dogs #art #quotes #orhanpamuk #afticanart #hyperrealism

We become not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. - Jimmy Carter Alma Woodsey Thomas, Red with a Touch of Orange, 1973 Acrylic on paper 6.625 inches in diameter #art #mosaic #almathomas #jimmycarter

Always drink upstream from the herd.
- Will Rogers Howard Cook, Governor's Palace (El Palacio Real), 1926 Woodcut print on paper 8 x 8 inches (image) #art #newmexicoartist #newmexico #santafe

In joy
we are our own uncomprehending mourners,
and more than joy I longed for understanding
and more than understanding I longed for joy.

- Andrew Hudgins Louise Ganthiers, Thrust, 1953 Oil on masonite 21.25 x 29.25 ins #joy #poetry #art #inspiration #womenartists

This is the place.
 And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black from Diving into the Wreck, Adrienne Rich Ken Price, Lorna, 1981 Watercolor & Xerox print on paper 3 x 8 inches (image) 7.7 x 20.3 cm (image) 3.75 x 9 inches (sheet) #art #poetry #adriennerich #kenprice

Phoebe Beasley, Mystic Maven, circa 1975 Mixed media collage on paper 20 x 14 ins You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. - Janis Joplin #art #janisjoplin #blackwomanartist #inspirationalquote #now

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 
"Consider the Lilies".
― Emily Dickinson Marsden Hartley, Calla Lilies in a Vase, 1928 Oil on canvas 24 x 19.625 ins #art #callalilies #marsdenhartley #modernart #flowers

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. - Chinua Achebe Elizabeth Catlett, Mask, 1981 Agate 14 x 13 x 10 ins #art #sculpture #blackartist #womenartists #elizabethcatlett

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along - W.H. Auden Patricinio Barela, Untitled, 1961 Wood 24h x 8 x 4.5 ins #art #woodcarving #auden

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar. 
- Janet Fitch Beatrice Mandelman, Untitled, ca. 1970 Oil on canvas 40 x 34 inches 101.6 x 86.4 cm #art #newmexicoartist #womenartists #newmexicotrue #beatricemandelman

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth. - R. Buckminister Fuller Earl J. Hooks, Untitled (Multi-Pod Vessel), circa 1960 Glazed ceramic sculpture 9 x 13 x 10 inches #art #quote #ceramicart #buckminsterfuller #blackartist

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

-Leonard Cohen, Anthem Howard B. Schleeter, Church, 1942 Watercolor on paper 18.75 x 13.25 inches #leonardcohen #church #light #art #newmexico

“I had the sense of coming home to myself, and of having found out what a little circle man’s experience is.” - Willa Cather John Sloan, Dolly's House, Santa Fe, 1930 Crayon on paper 9.25 x 12.5 ins #art #santafe #willacather #drawing #cominghome

It is something to own a pheasant, Or just to be visited at all. But a dozen would be worth having, A hundred, on that hill-green and red, Crossing and recrossing: a fine thing! - Sylvia Plath Morris Hirshfield, Pheasants, 1945 Oil on canvas #sylviaplath #morrishieschfield #pheasants #art

I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life

Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.
Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.

- Mary Oliver Beauford Delaney, Paris Street, 1966 #maryoliver #dog

That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Chihung Yang, Leaves of Grass, 1990 Acrylic, pastel & charcoal on paper 29.5 × 22 in #art #quote #waltwhitman #leavesofgrass #inspiration

Belief has nothing to do with truth. ― Percival Everett, James Frederic Remington, Negro, circa 1890 Graphite on paper 5.75 x 4.25 ins #art #percivaleverett #quotes #truth

I walk down the patterned garden paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled fan, I too am a rare Pattern. As I wander down The garden paths. - Amy Lowell Alan Shields, "Soft and Fluffy Gears" series, 1987 
Handmade paper 18 x 18 ins #poetry #flowers #art #alanshields

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. - Tom Stoppard John Connell, Manjushri, 1994 Mixed media collage on paper 60 x 48 ins #art #tomstoppard #quotes #buddhism #collage

Staring off into a distance limned by cataracts and other collected debris, you have forgotten none of the long-ago joy of an ice-cream truck and its summer song. They used to write epics about moments like this. from War Widow by Chris Abani Charles White, Awaiting His Return, 1946 Lithograph

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. - Richard Pryor Cornelius Annor, Black Doll, 2020 Acrylic with fabric and paper collage on canvas 40.98 x 56.46 ins #africanart #ghanaianart #corneliusannor #richardpryor

Place yourself in the middle of the stream 
of power and wisdom 
which animates all whom it floats, 
and you are without effort impelled 
to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Raymond Jonson, Watercolor No. 20, 1946 Watercolor on paper 19.5 x 27.25 inches #art #quote

Strong women know the taste of their own hatred I must always be building nests in a windy place I want the safety of oblique numbers that do not include me a beautiful woman with ugly moments secret and patient - Audre Lorde Emma Amos, American Girl, 1974 Etching Aquatint 15.625 x 19.75 ins

To live in this world you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go. - Mary Oliver Stuart Walker • K, 1932 Watercolor on paper 6.75 x 11.75 ins #art #maryoliver

Hold my hand and I'll take you there, somehow, someday, somewhere. -West Side Story Oluwole Omofemi, Me and You, 2021 Oil & acrylic on canvas 69.125 x 47.75 ins #art #africanart #blackart

The mountains are calling, and I must go. John Muir Emil J. Bisttram, New Mexico Mountains with Clouds, circa 1930 Oil on board 7.125 x 9.1 ins #mountains #art #newmexico #johnmuir

Volcanoes be in Sicily And South America I judge from my Geography -- Volcanos nearer here A Lava step at any time Am I inclined to climb -- A Crater I may contemplate Vesuvius at Home. - Emily Dickinson Dan Concholar, Untitled, ca. 1970 Acrylic & canvas collage 20 x 20 ins #art #emilydickinson

The sheen of it all
Is a star silver and a pine green
For the heart of a child asking a story,
The red and hungry, red and hankering heart
Calling for cross-lights of silver and green. –Carl Sandburg Vija Celmins, Galaxy, 1975 Color lithograph on Twinrocker handmade paper 12.5 x 16.5 in #art

“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou Edward Corbett, Provincetown, 1959 Oil on canvas 40 x 60 ins Edward Corbett, New Mexico # 34, 1954 Colored pastels & charcoal on paper 35 x 23 ins #art #mayanagelou #abstractexpressionism

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go. - Jean Genet Heather Hutchison, Sun Rose (triptych), 1993 Beeswax, plexiglass, pigment & birch 30 x 21.5 x 3 ins #art #abstractart #womenartist #jeangenet