Creatively Confident

No man has the right to dictate what other

men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ~Ansel Adams

Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling

and instinct - a gift of knowing without

reasoning... Belief is  ignited by hope and

supported by facts and evidence - it builds

alignment and creates confidence. Belief is

what sets energy in motion and creates

success that breeds more success. ~Angela Ahrendts

Philosophical Collaboration

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy

requires art. Otherwise, what would 

become of beauty? ~Paul Gauguin

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

Dreaming

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! ~Alfred A. Montapert

All successful people, men and women, are

big dreamers. They imagine what their 

future could be, ideal in every respect, and

then they work every day toward their

distant vision, that goal or purpose. ~Brian Tracy

Memoirs & Moments

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us

by surprise. It is not that we seize them, 

but that they seize us. ~Ashley Montagu

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~John Milton

Demiurgic Disposition

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Flowering Flections

No great artist ever sees things as 

they really are. If he did, he would cease 

to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde

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

Tellurian Murmurs

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as

to have friends at a distance; they make the

latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau

And forget not that the earth delights to 

feel your bare feet and the winds long to 

play with your hair. ~Khalil Gibran