Muhittin Budak / Frank Frazetta inspired drawing / circa 2020
"Animals are a window to your soul and a doorway to your spiritual destiny. If you let them into your life and allow them to teach you, you will be better for it."__Kim Shotola
Rodney Smith / 'Viktoria Under Lampshade' / circa 2012
"I see something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity."__Stephen King
Alan L. Durst / 'Two designs with fowl' / circa 1927
"Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world ... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis."__Teilhard de Chardin
Alex Churilov / a smiling Dugong, a.k.a., sea cow (Dugongs are gentle, semi-nomadic cousins of the manatee.) / circa 2020
"Smiling doesn't necessarily mean that one is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong."__Zayn Malik
Chuck Jones / Wile E. Coyote in 'Boulder Wham!' / circa 1965
"You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough ... Never give up."
― Richelle E. Goodrich
Emil Otto Hoppé / Lubov Tchernicheva as Cleopatra / circa 1918
"I will not be triumphed over."__Cleopatra
Edward Gorey / untitled / circa 1974
"Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, then no matter. Go right on doing what you love."__Lois Hurst
Keith Haring / untitled / circa 1980
"Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well for the Native Americans."__Stephen Hawking
Eve Arnold / 'Malcolm X, Chicago' / circa 1961.
"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."__Malcolm X
Thomas Fluharty / 'Doby' / circa 2018
"Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have four paws."__Jury Nel
Dan Witz / 'Happy House' / circa 2011
"Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."__Victor Hugo
David Shrigley / 'I Know Him' / circa 2019
"The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not."__Chris Van Allsburg
photographer unknown / image source
"Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives."__Pam Brown
Gary Simmons / 'Piano Man' / circa 2020
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."__Claude Debussy
photographer unknown / image source
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
__Albert Schweitzer
Goce Ilievski / 'Street' / circa 2013
"Silent streets have much to say."
__Mehmet Murat ildan
David Hucks / circa 2017
"If luck weren’t involved, I would win every time."__Phil Hellmuth
