Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, “What light?” and two more to say, “I didn’t turn it on. Erma Bombeck

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Harry S. Truman

The kitchen is a country in which there are always new discoveries to be made. Grimod de la Reyniere, Almanach des Gourmands

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes De Mille

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Save February, she alone
Hath eight days and a score
Til leap year gives her one day more.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. Cynthia Heimel

Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. unknown

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock

It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. Jackson Pollock

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock

We have the illusion that working for ourselves means having lots of free time. Linda Blondheim

Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible. Squeak Carnwath

Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith. Harry A. Overstreet