The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

DUCHAMP

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

PICASSO

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

DUCHAMP

I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.

RICHARD FLANAGAN

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

R BUCKMINSTER-FULLER

Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly four billion years of Darwinian selection. But many tend to think that humans are still somehow the culmination of that. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan—it will not be humans who watch that sun’s demise six billion years from now. Any creatures that then do exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoeba.

Martin Rees

(former Astronomer Royal, UK)

NGC 3324 - Gabriela Mistral Nebula

Photo: Adam Fyfe