Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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



Sunday, March 22, 2015

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 



Thursday, March 19, 2015

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



Wednesday, March 18, 2015

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



Tuesday, March 17, 2015

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



Thursday, March 12, 2015

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




Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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