Eugene J. Martin

Money inspires activity, not honesty.

Rather than programming children as if they were computers, parents should be something like art instructors. Because life is like a clump-of-clay, you can’t make it into an expression of beauty, unless you take it into your hands. While sprinkling their lives with painful and playful diversions, people wait their lives miserably into old age, for the skills to live-life, to–come as did life- itself.

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.

All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.

One tool that is used most and has the greatest misuse of power is looks, and another tool that is used least and has the least desire for power is wisdom.

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.

When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.

Sometimes when you feed on another’s word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.

Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.