Shane Walter

words to make me think. this was to be my stuff, writing, musing, travelling, doodling, photographing, mark making, ideas and inward adventures but look elsewhere for that...

As with all white wine it seems to remind us how good red wine is

—Fergus Henderson in port-magazine

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

—Pablo Picasso

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

—Stephen Hawkins. RIP

I never wish to be easily defined

—Frans Kafka

IF YOU LOOK AFTER GOODNESS AND TRUTH, BEAUTY WILL TAKE CARE OF ITSELF.

—ERIC GILL

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience.

—Marshall McLuhan

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

—Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

It’s through drawing that your head starts working

—The New Yorker’s cartoonist Joost Swarte

There is something about the act of drawing that bypasses the mundane consciousness and reaches straight to the brain.

—TRACEY EMIN

Words will never be as expressive as the gesture

—ADON LACROIX

To stay is to exist. But to travel is to live.

—G Nadaud

Design has to work.
Art does not.

—Donald Judd

I personally feel that a box, far from being a dead end, is an entrance to another world. I don’t know to where, but an entrance to somewhere, some other world.

—Kobo Abe

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us…

—Franz Kafka

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things

—HENRY MILLER