Each of us carries

in our chest

a song

so old

we don't know

if we learned it

some night

between the murmurs

of fallen kisses.

Our lips

surprise us

when we utter

this song

that is singing

and crying at once.

Francisco X Alarcon

every artist dips his brush

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

the mysterious...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein