Explore

Art & Quotes

While I am no artist, I believe that engaging in the arts exercises creative-thinking and problem solving skills. Please enjoy some of my very "just for fun" work and a few quotes I have collected along the way.

Mark Van Doren

The powers of the person are what education wishes to perfect. To aim at anything less is to belittle men; to fasten somewhere on their exterior a crank which accident or tyrants can twist to set machinery going. The person is not machinery which others can run. His mind has its own laws, which are the laws of thought itself.

Stephen King

The key to good description begins with clear seeing and ends with clear writing, the kind of writing that employs fresh images and simple vocabulary.