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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
Agnes Martin
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Doing what you were born to do … That’s the way to be happy.
Agnes Martin
Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.
Vija Celmins
Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can’t see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.
Vija Celmins
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it and my heart is just going to cave in.
Ricky Fitts in American Beauty
Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can’t take it and my heart is just going to cave in.
Ricky Fitts in American Beauty
Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Robert Delaunay
Sometimes,
Rick Rubin
it can be the most ordinary moment that creates an extraordinary piece of art.
Sometimes,
it can be the most ordinary moment that creates an extraordinary piece of art.Rick Rubin
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble.
Randy Armstrong
It takes away today’s peace.
Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s trouble. It takes away today’s peace.
Randy Armstrong
Art is choosing to do something skillfully,
Rick Rubin
caring about the details,
bringing all of yourself
to make the finest work you can.
It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorification
and need for approval.
Art is choosing to do something skillfully,
caring about the details,
bringing all of yourself to make the finest work you can.
It is beyond ego, vanity, self-glorification and need for approval.Rick Rubin
The purpose of art is to cleanse our souls from the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is to cleanse our souls from the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Paolo Coelho
Maybe the journey isn’t about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
Paolo Coelho
One morning you smell autumn. It is not yet cold; it is not yet windy;
Kurt Tucholsky
nothing actually has changed at all - and yet everything has.
One morning you smell autumn. It is not yet cold; it is not yet windy;
nothing actually has changed at all – and yet everything has.Kurt Tucholsky
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness
Andy Rooney
and growth occurs while you are climbing it.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness
and growth occurs
while you are climbing it.Andy Rooney
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese proverb
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese proverb
Non c'é montagna più alta di quella che non scalerò
Jovanotti
L’esprit possède une fonction de mise en veille: elle se met en marche au moment de vous mettre au travail.
Unknown
L’esprit possède une fonction de mise en veille: elle se met en marche au moment de vous mettre au travail.
Unknown
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
John Ruskin
No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
John Ruskin
There's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away.
Sarah Kay
There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.
Sarah Kay
New York is a work of art in and of itself. It's a masterpiece that shouldn't make sense, yet somehow it does.
Jacqueline E. Smith
New York is a work of art in and of itself. It’s a masterpiece that shouldn’t make sense, yet somehow it does.
JAcqueline E. Smith
Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.
Rick Rubin
Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.
Rick Rubin
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
Wayne Thiebaud