Sunlight Touch

Love is like  a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ~Helen Keller

Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things. ~Hayao Miyazaki

To Be An Artist

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have  those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ~Aristotle

Every human is an artist. The dream of your

life is to make beautiful art. ~Miguel Angel Ruiz

Uncovered Light

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. ~Maya Angelou

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. ~Buddha

Our Future

I would feel more optimistic about a bright

future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. ~E. B. White

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. ~Marya Mannes

A Journey Into Sunlight

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~Lao Tzu

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. ~Samuel Smiles

Earth Flowers

As a single footstep will not make a path on

the earth, so a single thought will not make 

a pathway in the mind. To make a deep

physical path, we walk again and again. 

To make a deep mental path, we must think

over and over the kind of thoughts we wish 

to dominate our lives. ~Henry David Thoreau

The earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

To Paint A Rose

There is nothing more difficult for a truly

creative painter than to paint a rose, because

before he can do so he has first to forget all

the roses that were ever painted. ~Henri Matisse

Art is not what you see, but what 

you make others see. ~Edgar Degas

Shifting Focus

It's only when we truly know and

understand that we have a limited time on

earth - and that we have no way of knowing

when out time is up, we will then begin to live

each day to the fullest, as if it was the only 

one we had. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is during our darkest moments that we

must focus to see the light. ~Aristotle Onassis

Simplicity

The art of art, the glory of expression 

and the sunshine of the light of letters, 

is simplicity. ~Walt Whitman

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head,

and the heart of man go together. ~John Ruskin

Color Your World

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein

Colors, like features, follow the changes 

of the emotions. ~Pablo Picasso

Nature's Imagination

Every flower is a soul blossoming 

in nature. ~Gerard De Nerval

Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. ~James Cameron

Angles & Views

Good art is art that allows you to enter it

from a variety of angles and to emerge 

with a variety of views. ~Mary Schmich

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever the force and beauty of its process. ~Max Eastman

Dancing in the Sun

But let there be spaces in your togetherness

and let the winds of the heavens dance

between you. Love one another but make not

a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea

between the shores of your souls. ~Khalil Gibran

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for 

a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, 

or the slightest breath of wind. ~Anne Bronte

Spring Rebirth

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us

to become new creatures. ~James E. Faust

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ~William Shakespeare

Graceful Art

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your Creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down 

from upon high, but by doing what you can

to make grace happen... yourself, right now,

right down here on Earth. ~Bradley Whitford

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~Andre Gide

Art of Discussion

An artist cannot speak about his art any more 

than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. ~Gian Carlo Menotti