The Rise

“Pictures have a power akin to song,” Douglass said. “Give me the making of a nations [sic] ballads, and I care not who has the making of its Laws.”36

“Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all—oneself,” architect Louis Kahn stated. “Nobody knows his own frontiers.

saudade, the Portuguese term for persistent longing for what we sense may never come.

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and “Ulysses,” which famously closes with the final lines: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

“Poets, prophets and reformers are all picture makers—and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements,” he said. “They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction.”45

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. —SCOTT ADAMS

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”27