"All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness."
(Eckhart Tolle)
"Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else."
— Marc Chagall
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” (Danny Kaye)
“The modern artist…is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the
motion, and other inner forces.”
(Jackson Pollock. American abstract-expressionist painter. 1912-1956)
"Abstract art has come into being as a necessary expression of the feelings and thoughts of our age; it
has added new dimensions to creative painting."
(Leonard Brooks)
Start a painting with fresh ideas, and then let the painting replace your ideas with its ideas.
(Darby Bannard)
'What is life? This is it. Right now. This is all there is. This is as good as it gets.'
'The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.' Brideshead Revisited,
Evelyn Waugh
"If you want to study yourself — look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people
— look into your own heart." Friedrich von Schiller
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in
the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing
that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." `-El roosevelt
"There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in
order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but
by making the darkness conscious." ~ Carl Jung
"When the world says, “Give up!” hope whispers, “Give it one more try."
— Carolyn Agrimis
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