As a deviation, or continuation, of the last blog highlighting “Gratitude,” and since it is way too hot to work in the studio, here are ten actual quotes guiding specific recent artworks. The equal sign (=) references the artwork title.
Maya Angelou—A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. = Because It Has a Song.
Maya Angelou—A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. = Because It Has a Song.
Madame Curie—Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. = Life Is Hard. To Be Contd.
Lena Horne—It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way your carry it. = Burdens
Anais Nin—Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. = Becoming
Joyce Carol Oates—It is only through disruption and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else’s private world with our own. = Growth by Disruption
Mingyur Rinpoche—Everything comes from emptiness. = Everything Comes from Emptiness
Rumi—Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. = Beyond Wrong or Right
Rabindranath Tagore—Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. = Death: Lights Out/Dawn
Rabindranath Tagore—Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. = Full Circle View, Sunset Clouds
Eudora Welty—A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. = Sheltered Daring
A work in progress, and yet to be photographed, is based on Eckhart Tolle—To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. = The Being Undeneath. View it on the home page “New Works” coming in June, 2021. You’ll also have to wait to see what I’m doing with “Voluptuous Woe.”
Meanwhile, enjoy this statement from Alain de Botton in “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” A parenthetical remark about Marcel Proust: (though Proust did happen to feel that ‘one must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.’)
Meanwhile, enjoy this statement from Alain de Botton in “How Proust Can Change Your Life.” A parenthetical remark about Marcel Proust: (though Proust did happen to feel that ‘one must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.’)