Home > Work > The Ecliptic

The Ecliptic QUOTES

The Ecliptic QUOTES

1 " Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

2 " If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

3 " If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

4 " The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the perspective of the sun? That's no use to anyone ... Ergo, it's an imaginary circle, as it's only a part of our human construction of the cosmos. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

5 " Once your best story's told it, can't be told again. It makes you, then it ruins you. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

6 " There is no finer company than inspiration, but its very goodness will leave you heartsick when it goes. So do not waste time asking it to wipe its feet. Embrace it at the treshold. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

7 " Genius does not have time to stand admiring its reflection; it has too much work to get finished. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic

8 " I'm tired of retracing my own footsteps for a hint of who I used to be, it's undignified. "

― Benjamin Wood , The Ecliptic