“I’ve caught this magical landscape and it’s the enchantment of it that I’m so keen to render. Of course, lots of people will protest that it’s quite unreal, but that’s just too bad.” ~ Claude Monet
Category: Thought
Thought for Thursday
“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond winning.” Lao Tzu
Thought for Thursday
“Empathy isn’t dictated to us by a focus group or a statistical analysis. Empathy is the powerful (and rare) ability to imagine what motivates someone else to act.”~Seth Godin
Thought for Thursday
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.” Norman Vincent Peale
Thought for Thursday
“Everything is figureoutable.”~Marie Forleo, Entrepreneur at Rich, Hot, Happy B-School
Thought for Thursday
“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.”~Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way Hmmm.
Interesting. I always thought it was a good idea to go back and look at where our work began to shift, but since reading this quote I’m not so sure.
Do we tend to judge the work rather than study and learn from it? Do we end up saying to our artist-self “You idiot, What were you thinking when you painted that?” Chime in here. I would really like to know what other creatives think about this.
Thought for Thursday
“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”~Michelangelo
Thought for Thursday
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”~Bruce Lee
Thought for Thursday
“Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing – then a work of art may happen.” ~Andrew Wyeth
Thought for Thursday
“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.” ~Gilbert K. Chesterton