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You’re a middle-aged woman living alone. It’s a very cold winter’s day … but sunny … so you give your cat a goodbye pat on the head and reluctantly venture outside to do your shopping. Before long, you’re rosy-cheeked and nearly chilled to the bone. Spotting a familiar refuge, you slip into the neighborhood café for a cup of tea and human camaraderie.
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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. ~ Ray Bradbury
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For a long time
I was not even
in this world, yet
every summer
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You must give birth
to your images.
They are the future
waiting to be born.
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Art helps us to live our lives. ~ Wallace Stevens
[Image courtesy of Barcelona artist Rosa Maria Morató Roig.]
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Creative work is pure prayer of spirit. Art is the heart of the people. Knowledge is the brain of the people. Only through the heart and wisdom can mankind unite and understand each other. ~ Nicholas Roerich
[Image ~ Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy]
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All things consist of carrying to term and then giving birth. To allow the completion of every impression, every germ of feeling deep within, in darkness, beyond words, in the realm of instinct unattainable by logic, to await humbly and patiently the hour of the descent of new clarity: that alone is to live one’s art, in the realm of understanding as in that of creativity.
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It is the artist’s job to create sunshine when there is none.
~ Romain Rolland (Nobel Prize winner, Literature, 1915)
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All I want to do when I finish a picture is to fly away. I like life. I am bored by the intellectuals, or these people who call themselves intellectuals. They try to give an exact name to everything. ‘A good woman.’ A bad woman.’ And they are not real intellectuals. In the original meaning of the word, an intellectual was someone who had intellect.
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