ART
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside. It's a painful, difficult search within.” ~Louise Nevelson
"Do Not fear mistakes, there are none."
~Miles Davis
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
~Maya Angelou
"The interesting thing about art is that it is purposelessly useless. That doesn't mean that it isn't a catalyst for thought and that it doesn't fulfill other things that we lack and need, but I don't think that it is useful in the way that architecture is useful."
~Richard Serra
To be an artist is to believe in life.
~Henry Moore
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
~Dean Mitchell
When you begin to act on your creativity, what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world.
~Eileen M. Clegg
"This basic idea of culture in so far as it assigns only one task to every single one of us: to promote inside and outside of ourselves the generation of the philosopher, the artist, and the saint, and thus to work at the perfection of nature"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making
music with them.
~Dennis Gabor
Ugly can be beautiful, but never pretty.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
Some days creation is easier than others
~Mark Noble
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
~Henry Moore
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler
From Ira Glass . . .
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Success
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~Douglas Adams
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
~Paulo Coelho
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
~Willam J. Johnston
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
~Denis Waitley
Truth is that risk-taking breeds failure and failure breeds success.
~Dean Kamazes
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~W. H. Murray
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
~Napoleon Hill
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
~Carl Sandburg
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Life
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~Anne Frank
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
George Carlin
Faced with the death of a man, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibility of everyone before God and man, and hopes and pledges that every event is not an opportunity for a further growth of hatred, but of peace."
~The Catholic Church after the announcement of Bin Ladin's death
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.
~Rafiki from the Lion King
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
~Robert Brault
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~Aristotle
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
~Kierkegaard
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
~Neale Donald Walsh
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha
"Without kryptonite, you got nothing"
~Jon Stewart on Heros
Love and Friendship
I am strong. Stronger than my past. Stronger than my fears. Stronger than my pride. Stronger than my guilt. Stronger, because of her love.
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
Everything will be okay in the end. If It's not okay, it's not the end.
~unknown
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
~ Steve Jobs, 2005 commencement address at Stanford
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Albert Camus
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
~Author Unknown
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People who love in the expectation of being loved in return are wasting their time.
~Paul Coehlo
Love doesn't limit itself to relationships. It is a celebration of life.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
“I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside. It's a painful, difficult search within.” ~Louise Nevelson
"Do Not fear mistakes, there are none."
~Miles Davis
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
~Maya Angelou
"The interesting thing about art is that it is purposelessly useless. That doesn't mean that it isn't a catalyst for thought and that it doesn't fulfill other things that we lack and need, but I don't think that it is useful in the way that architecture is useful."
~Richard Serra
To be an artist is to believe in life.
~Henry Moore
Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.
~Dean Mitchell
When you begin to act on your creativity, what you find inside may be more valuable than what you produce for the external world.
~Eileen M. Clegg
"This basic idea of culture in so far as it assigns only one task to every single one of us: to promote inside and outside of ourselves the generation of the philosopher, the artist, and the saint, and thus to work at the perfection of nature"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making
music with them.
~Dennis Gabor
Ugly can be beautiful, but never pretty.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
~Leonard Cohen
Some days creation is easier than others
~Mark Noble
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
~Henry Moore
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler
From Ira Glass . . .
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me . . . is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase. They quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it’s normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Success
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
~Douglas Adams
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.
~Paulo Coelho
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
~Willam J. Johnston
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
~Denis Waitley
Truth is that risk-taking breeds failure and failure breeds success.
~Dean Kamazes
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~W. H. Murray
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
~Napoleon Hill
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
~Carl Sandburg
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~Henry David Thoreau
Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.
Life
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~Anne Frank
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
George Carlin
Faced with the death of a man, a Christian never rejoices, but reflects on the serious responsibility of everyone before God and man, and hopes and pledges that every event is not an opportunity for a further growth of hatred, but of peace."
~The Catholic Church after the announcement of Bin Ladin's death
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or... learn from it.
~Rafiki from the Lion King
Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.
~Robert Brault
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
~Aristotle
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
~Kierkegaard
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
~Neale Donald Walsh
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
~Buddha
"Without kryptonite, you got nothing"
~Jon Stewart on Heros
Love and Friendship
I am strong. Stronger than my past. Stronger than my fears. Stronger than my pride. Stronger than my guilt. Stronger, because of her love.
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.
Everything will be okay in the end. If It's not okay, it's not the end.
~unknown
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
~ Steve Jobs, 2005 commencement address at Stanford
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~Albert Camus
When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
~Author Unknown
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People who love in the expectation of being loved in return are wasting their time.
~Paul Coehlo
Love doesn't limit itself to relationships. It is a celebration of life.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
― Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays