Joseph Cornell Quotes
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Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
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Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
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Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.
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Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
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Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
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My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.
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Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets—a connotation of moon and tides—the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.
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