8506. D’ La Santa in Seattle, Washington August 15, 2019

8505. Queso and Tortillas at D’ La Santa in Seattle August 15, 2019

8504. Birthday Dinner—and Margaritas—at D’ La Santa in Seattle August 15, 2019

8051. Work Crew August 4, 2019

8028. Blue Angels at Seafair, Seattle August 3, 2019

8027. Blue Angels at Seafair, Seattle August 3, 2019

8026. Blue Angels at Seafair, Seattle August 3, 2019

7825. Chihuly Glass at the Space Needle in Seattle, WA July 29, 2019

7342. The Fremont Sunday Market in Seattle, WA July 17, 2019

7218. St James Cathedral in Seattle, Washington July 8, 2019

7203. Blue Squares: The Chihuly Garden in Seattle July 5, 2019

7082. Vintage Pearl Jam Posters At SeaTac Airport July 2, 2019

7081. Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, WA July 2, 2019

7062. Chihuly Glass in Seattle, WA June 28, 2019

7059. Discovery Park—Seattle, Washington June 28, 2019

7025. Sunday Brunch at Union Saloon in Seattle, WA June 23, 2019

6932. Best Ferns Forever—At Seattle Chocolate Company June 15, 2019

6654. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6653. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6652. The Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6651. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6650. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6649. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6648. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6647. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6646. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6645. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6644. The Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6643. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6642. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6641. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6640. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6639. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6638. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6637. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6636. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6635. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6634. Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6633. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6630. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6627. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6625. Faces and Shadows of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6624. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6623. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6619. Faces of the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6616. “A mask tells us more than a face.” ― Oscar Wilde May 25, 2019

6615. “I don’t fancy colors of the face, I’m always attracted to colors of the brain.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson May 25, 2019

6614. “Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.” ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses May 25, 2019May 25, 2019

6610. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy May 25, 2019

6609. “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.” ― P.G. Wodehouse May 25, 2019

6608. “life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one” ― Stella Adler May 25, 2019

6607. “The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” ― Walt Whitman May 25, 2019

6606. “Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?” ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns May 25, 2019

6605. “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.” ― Danny Kaye May 25, 2019

6604.“Imagination governs the world.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte May 25, 2019

6603. “Art is what you can get away with.” ― Andy Warhol May 25, 2019

6602.“The beautiful is always bizarre.” ― Charles Baudelaire May 25, 2019

6601. The Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6600. “Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy May 25, 2019

6599. “Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.” ― Toni Morrison, Sula May 25, 2019

6598.“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh May 25, 2019

6597. “Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.” ― Ossie Davis May 25, 2019

6596. “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ― James Baldwin May 25, 2019

6594. “There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.” ― Coco Chanel May 25, 2019

6593. “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah May 25, 2019

6592. “Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” ― Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose May 25, 2019

6591.“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.” ― Mikhail Bakunin May 25, 2019

6590. “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ― Banksy May 25, 2019

6589. “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” ― Frida Kahlo May 25, 2019

6588. “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” ― Alice Walker May 25, 2019

6587. “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” ― Saint Francis of Assisi May 25, 2019

6586. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” ― Leonardo da Vinci May 25, 2019

6585. “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ― Ansel Adams May 25, 2019

6584. “Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind May 25, 2019

6583. “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ― Aristotle May 25, 2019

6581. “Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows May 25, 2019

6580. A Rainy Day at the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6579. An Afternoon at the Seattle Art Museum May 25, 2019

6578. Seattle Art Museum 🖼 May 25, 2019

6577. “The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.” ― Anton Pavlovich Chekhov May 25, 2019

6576. “An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey May 25, 2019

6575. “Art is the proper task of life. ” ― Friedrich Nietzsche May 25, 2019

6574. “Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak May 25, 2019

6573. “And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.” ― Lady Gaga May 25, 2019

6571. “Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson May 25, 2019

6570. “He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.” ― Hannah Harrington, Saving June May 25, 2019

6569. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6568. “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality May 25, 2019

6567. “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon May 25, 2019

6566.“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ― Diane Arbus May 25, 2019

6563. “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi May 25, 2019

6562. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6560. “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” ― Oscar Wilde May 25, 2019

6558. “The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” ― Lester Bangs May 25, 2019

6557. “We have art in order not to die of the truth.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche May 25, 2019

6556. “You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” ― Ansel Adams May 25, 2019

6555. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6554.“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray May 25, 2019

6553. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6552. “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” ― Ansel Adams May 25, 2019

6551. “One eye sees, the other feels.” ― Paul Klee May 25, 2019

6550. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ― Vincent Van Gogh May 25, 2019

6549. “Creativity takes courage. ” ― Henri Matisse May 25, 2019

6548. “…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh May 25, 2019

6547. “Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.” ― Oscar Wilde May 25, 2019

6546. “You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ― Rick Riordan May 25, 2019

6545. “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” ― Bob Ross May 25, 2019

6544. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” ― Edgar Degas May 25, 2019

6543. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” ― Karl Lagerfeld May 25, 2019

6542. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats May 25, 2019

6541. “Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.” ― Woody Allen May 25, 2019

6540. “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6539. “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island May 25, 2019

6538. “Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.” ― Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story May 25, 2019

6537. “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola May 25, 2019

6536. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh May 25, 2019

6535. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War May 25, 2019

6533. “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci May 25, 2019

6532. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh May 25, 2019

6531.“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6529. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6527. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw May 25, 2019

6526. “Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park May 25, 2019

6525. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso May 25, 2019

6524. The Seattle Art Museum: It is for the artist…in the portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day. –James McNeil Whistler May 25, 2019

6523. Seattle Art Museum 💃 May 24, 2019

5686. View from the Columbia Tower in Seattle, Washington April 26, 2019

5488. Street Art of Seattle, Washington April 17, 2019

5463. Oddball: At the Official Bad Art Museum in Seattle, Washington April 17, 2019

5423. Street Art in Seattle April 13, 2019April 13, 2019

5319. Urban Art in Tacoma, Washington April 12, 2019April 12, 2019

5291. Straight On April 12, 2019April 11, 2019

5152. Urban Orange April 12, 2019April 10, 2019

5150. Urban Green April 12, 2019April 10, 2019

4771. Tea Canisters at Uwajimaya in Seattle, Washington April 7, 2019April 5, 2019

4595. The Lady Bugs of Wallingford (Seattle, Washington) April 7, 2019April 5, 2019

4594. The Lady Bugs of Seattle, Washington April 7, 2019April 5, 2019

4593. The Ladybugs of Wallingford (Seattle, Washington) April 7, 2019April 5, 2019

4210. Cherry Blossoms, Seattle, Washington March 28, 2019March 24, 2019

4207. View from the Columbia Tower, Seattle, Washington March 28, 2019March 24, 2019

3617. Crab Legs at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington March 10, 2019March 6, 2019

3411. Space Needle Reflections in Seattle, Washington March 5, 2019March 3, 2019

3180. Bark at the Park at T-Mobile Stadium in Seattle, WA February 26, 2019February 25, 2019

3179. Tiny Plant at Milstead and Company Coffee in Seattle, Washington February 26, 2019February 25, 2019

2729. Sea of Green: At Volunteer Park Conservatory in Seattle, Washington February 13, 2019February 12, 2019

2708. Friendship: In Madrona, Seattle February 12, 2019February 11, 2019

2706. Friendship: At the Taste Of Seattle February 12, 2019February 11, 2019

2699. Friendship February 12, 2019February 11, 2019

2698. Friendship: A Wedding in Seattle February 12, 2019February 11, 2019

2693. Friendship: More Work Friends February 12, 2019February 11, 2019