• A Painter's prayer:"Goddess, grant me the strength to leave alone those areas that are freshly enough painted, and the wisdom to see and fix those that are not." - Robert the Humble
  
  
• I believe in intuition and inspiration... At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. (Albert Einstein)
  

• "It's not what you are that holds you back. It's what you think you are not." - Dr. Dennis Waitley
  
  
• "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford

• "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau

• now she said: "help me to understand -- how do you actually make a painting? -- the process."

music played in the background, a gong, a flute, a line of synthetic keening, pausing, proceeding, an enigmatic composition which, if not attentively listened to, could easily fade in the background, receding to some subliminal aurality. "i paint to music," he said to her, and raised his eyes into the air, as if to catch the passage that hung between them now, a loosely strung necklace of meditative mysterious chords.
"i catch a rhythm and i let it go there."

- Basquiat

• What is your unrelenting passion?
  
  
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci
  
  
• Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain.
  

• LIFE FILMS US EXACTLY...our experiences of it, through, lies beyond images and descriptions. emotions, coming in irrational flashes. are non-figurable. we lose our little connection to them very quickly. we look for forms which promise to take us to our own experience. we construct forms with this in mind: that they can take us to meet the subconscious.

• The only way to predict the future is to create it.

• Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, some day far in the future, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
  

-Rainer Maria Rilke

• The only limits of your tomorrows are your hesitations of today.

• It is important to visualize what you wish to accomplish. It is also essential that you put that vision into action.

It's great to know precisely where you plan to go. Yet for that plan to be of any real value, you must act on it with commitment and persistence. Successful action is more than just a once-in-a-while effort. The actions that bring about the most value are the actions that are fully integrated into every moment of life. Real success is more than a method or a technique. Real success comes from who and what you most consistently and authentically are.
Every corner of your world, every moment of your time, every person and pursuit and passion in your life all matter. The time you spend playing has just as much influence as the time you spend working, for it all affects the whole person you are.
Seek to integrate positive purpose into everything you are, and into all that you touch. Live as though everything matters, and you'll bring magnificent achievements to life.
- Ralph Marston

• How many ways do you know how to free yourself?

• Failure can be damaging to our self-esteem. We give up easily when we failed. However people who have achieved success look at failure as positive opportunity to motivate them to achieve success To them success is not a given right, but earned through learning from mistakes. Remember: If you’re not experiencing failure, you’re not working hard enough.

• Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

• Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

• "I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas....I'm afraid of the old ones!"
  

- John Cage

• The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things." -Emily Carr

• "The most deadly picture is a picture of nothing at all." -William S. Burroughs

• "The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do" - Pablo Picasso"
  
  
• Don't be afraid that your life will end...be afraid that it will never begin"
  
  
• People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. " -Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
  
  
• We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.~ John Updike the writer, 1932-2009
  
  
• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
  
  
• Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
  
  
• There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
  
  
• "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson
  
  
• people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel ~Maya Angelou
  
  
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.... Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
  
  
• We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate...Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realizing our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless. —Christopher Reeve
  
  
• Your destiny isn't a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice. It's not something you wait for, but rather something you pursue.
• "I do not think that I shall receive the sympathy of the intellectual forces in the great art world, for I admit that I am offering nothing new by following in a great tradition - except that I am me, and anything that I do cannot have been done before" EDWARD SEAGO 1910 - 1974
  
  
• You are where you are, in life, because you know what you know, and you do what you do, and you are who you are. In order toadvance, you have to know more, and do more,and be more.