Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

- Joseph Cornell

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

- Joseph Cornell

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

- Joseph Cornell

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

- Joseph Cornell

Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become…

- Joseph Cornell

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

- Joseph Cornell

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

- Joseph Cornell