Soul Adventure

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ~W. Somerset Maugham

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand

Epilepsy Awareness: Courage & Heart

The greatest test of courage on earth is to 

bear defeat without losing heart. ~Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers

but to be fearless when facing them. Rabindranath Tagore

Breathing Spring

Nature always wears the colors 

of the spirit. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spring won't let me stay in this house 

any longer! I must get out and breathe 

the air deeply again. ~Gustav Mahler

Creativity Blossoms

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about

creating yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw

An essential aspect of creativity is not 

being afraid to fail. ~Edwin Land

Life Blooms

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is he mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. ~Agnes Martin

As long as we are persistent in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. ~Denis Waitley 

Perfume Gardens

To the real artist in humanity, what are

called bad manners are often the most

picturesque and significant of all. ~Walt Whitman

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. ~George Edward Moore

Border of Civilization

Art is like a border of flowers along the

course of civilization. ~Lincoln Steffens

What makes photography a strange

invention is that its primary raw materials

are light and time. ~John Berger

Nourish the Roots

If art is to nourish roots of our culture,

society must set the artist free to follow his

vision wherever it takes him. ~John F. Kennedy

Contrary to general belief, an artist is 

never ahead of his time but most people are

far behind theirs. ~Edgard Varese

Cordial Blossoms

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms

unexpectedly and without law, and must be

plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the

brief hour of its duration. ~D.H. Lawrence

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ~Auguste Rodin

Weeds Among Stones

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing. ~Gerard Manley Hopkins

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. ~Charlotte Bronte

Searching for Spring

No winter lasts forever; 

no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland

Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! ~Sitting Bull