“Making art, I believe , is an instinctive response to the world around us, often beyond reason and without purpose other than to pursue that first instinct.
The creative act is an act of confidence, an act of making and bringing something into being.”
John Petrie
“And so when we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world, we receive a beginning of confidence, an urge toward cosmic confidence. Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?”
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space – 1958