“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

― Pablo Picasso

"Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is." Mark Vonnegut

Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." twyla tharp

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” (Marc Chagall)

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”

― A.A. Milne

“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
― Corita Kent

"Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. " Corita Kent

 “We don't make mistakes,

 just happy little accidents.” 

― Bob Ross

"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else
decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While
they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol

"It could be argued that creativity is a form of prayer, a form of thankfulness and recognition of all we have to be thankful for, walking in this world."
Julia Cameron

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit" John Updike

Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.

"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."

Dorothy Parker

"PAINT WHAT YOUR EYE CAN SEE AND GIVE IT A SOUL, YOUR SOUL, AND LET NOT THE ONLOOKERS MAKE JUDGEMENT ..... FILL YOUR MIND WITH THE WIND AND THE AIR AND COLORS OF EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN AND ANIMAL ALIKE."
~Fabriozi 1471 - 1502 artist

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

Creativity is the
ability to move from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm......Winston Churchill

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."~ Edward Hopper

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work.~ Emile Zola

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PLEASE--do NOT pin my art---i thank
you for liking it, but "pinning" violates my copyright.
This applies to all
those tumblr blogs that take my content too!
Unsure about copyright? It's
simple: if it's *here*, it's mine.

“Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.”

Francis Picabia

The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks. ~ Winslow Homer

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp

There are flowers everywhere for those who wish to see them."~Henri Matisse

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"Today you are You,
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
Dr. Seuss

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso

Remember...Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~Buddha

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for."--Georgia O'Keeffe

I never paint dreams or nightmares.
I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ~William Plomer

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."Aristotle

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Walt Whitman