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"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are
mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of
everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say
a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous
roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in
the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody
goes 'Awww!'"
Jackson Pollock
With simple movements of lines, form and
color, I try to capture and define the poetry hidden within
the unknown.
Lani Picard
"Every artists' challenge is to
consistently re-invent who he or she has become."
Lani Picard
Art is simple rhythmic strands of light
curving into forms of matter.
Lani Picard
"Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope
surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the
end."
Virginia Woolf
"Life is wonderful, if only it were true."
Richard Perry
In the beginning (I)magination created
everything.
Lani Picard
If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear ... as it is, infinite.
William Blake
“The arts open your heart and mind to
possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that
touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to
imagination. Human beings’ greatest form of communication,
they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe
what it is to be human.”
-Jacques d’Amboise
"Like music, lines,
shapes, and images are dynamic energy equations creating
corresponding changes in human consciousness." He goes on to
say that all forms are energy equations, "each of which sets
up corresponding energy vibrations in consciousness,
reproducing itself in the subtle matter of the mental plane
and the even more subtle matter of the soul, for it is the
soul that interprets to the mind what it sees. Every shape,
movement of a line, hue, and shade of color, positioning of
an element in a work of art, choice of medium, or use of
texture produces its own unique effects in consciousness and
evokes its own specific responses. Like calls to like,
stimulates like, gives birth to like. How we interpret what
we see depends on the content of our own life experiences
and the associations we make based on these experiences. In
this way the forms in which consciousness invests itself act
as stimuli, shaping and driving the evolution of
consciousness by means of new and ever-changing patterns of
experiences."
Dr. Finley
Eversole, Art and Spiritual Transformation: The
Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth
...dance to the music of time.
Anthony Powell
The art of life is nothing more than the act of
improvisation at its best and worst.
Lani Picard
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the
life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Risking change takes a great deal of courage. From the risk
flows an endless feeling of greatness.
Lani Picard
Art offers the possibilities of love with strangers.
UCLA Friend of Walter Hopps
What we see is only appearance. Art does not reproduce the
visible, it makes the visible.
Paul Klee
“If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then
slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source
of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that
there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come
through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present
moment. You can't find it anywhere else.”
Natalie Goldberg
“The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual
– as we think so will we act.”
Martha Graham
The difference between art and science is simple. Science
explains energy. Art interprets energy.
Life is composed of
both for creative contrast, wonder and enjoyment.
Lani Picard
Art cannot be taught; art can only be sought.
Lani Picard
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
Getting simple is enormously complex.
Unknown
An artist wears her art in place of wounds.
Patti Smith
“My painting is a projection, a succession of acute moments
where creation occurs in the midst of spiritual tension as
the result of inner conflicts.
Painting is not a speculation of the mind or spirit, it’s a
gesture from within.”
Jean Miotte
Art reveals itself in the organization of the imagination.
Lani Picard
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb,
seduce, convince.
Lucian Freud
Art should astonish, transmute, transfix. One must work
at the tissue between truth and paranoia.
Brett Whiteley
Let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of
me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no
institution, to no academy,
least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.'
Gustave Courbet
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but
rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in
the human race.
Amedeo Modigliani
From within its poetic world, art is the front line of
perceptual innovation. Conscious only of itself, it
references infinity.
Al Vass
Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record
of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't
know.
A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is
commonplace or probing authoritatively the unknown.
Brett Whiteley
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since
prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It
lives through magic.
Keith Haring
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little
afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.
Jean Dubuffet
I can alchemize what wounds me into art.
Truman Capote
Pop Art resulted in a bold external expression of pure
arrogance.
Lani Picard
You had to feel sorry for yourself to create abstract art.
Robert Rauschenberg
The Sixties kaleidoscopic art scene was a painful rebirth of
play from the feel-sorry-for-me art of the Forties and
Fifties.
Lani Picard
It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as
something is said.
Jackson Pollock
As an artist you’re looking for universal triggers. You want
it both ways.
You want it to have an immediate impact, and
you want it to have deep meanings as well. I’m striving for
both.
Damien Hirst
All artists are vain, they long to be recognised and to
leave something to posterity.
They want to be loved, and at
the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.
Francis Bacon
"The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every
sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in
all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult
than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view,
but a thousandfold more precious."
Gardner Murphy
Kaloust Guedel has found a territory of artistic expression
beyond the bounds of intensity. His work tackles a force
unknown.
Lani Picard
It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe
that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the
world what he has to say.
MC Escher
Question everything, know all you can - believe nothing.
Lani Picard
Without the voice of thought, wonder would not exist.
Lani Picard
A creative mind can be an escape or a prison.
Lani Picard
“Every human has four endowments - self awareness,
conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These
give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,
to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey
"The higher evolution of Humankind will belong to those who
are kind."
Lani Picard
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill,
culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a
drug;
it is a particular state when everything happens very
quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness, of
fear and
pleasure; it’s a little like making love, the physical act
of love.
Francis Bacon
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not
exist.
Rene Magritte
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the
invisible.
Oscar Wilde
"...for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent
place."
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no excuse for small thinking - we have infinite
minds.
Lani Picard
Life is a 'metatomic' process, not a 'secret'.
Lani Picard
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a
savage and beautiful country lies in between."
Diane Ackerman
I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the
relationship of color or form or anything else.
I’m
interested only in expressing
basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
Mark Rothko
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect
confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation
prize.
Robert Hughes - Art Critic
Intuition whispers true: we’re not dust, we’re magic!
Richard Bach
The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us
through the mystic realm of color.
Hans Hofmann
"Insolence and ignorance shown by others can be the best
fuel for fierce determination."
David Kontra
I feel that making art is like dreaming on purpose...
Tony Brown
Time does not pass:
Words pass.
Jasper Johns
“The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual
– as we think so will we act.”
Martha Graham
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then
by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent van Gogh
The greatest work of a creative artist begins where and when
everyone else leaves off.
Lani Picard
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Great art can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history
of the future because
he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
Wyndham Lewis
A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the
experience.
Mark Rothko
I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know
anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
Jean Michel Basquiat
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of
oneself.
Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait
for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More
often
than not work is salvation.
Chuck Close
When photography's good, let me put it that way, it's as
good as painting.
Clement Greenberg
Art is dead.
Lani Picard
I am sure that Einstein's ultimate contemplation was to find
a working equation for the 'idea' itself.
Lani Picard
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire
"Each painting is an episode in a personal history, an entry
in a journal," and "My work in its entirety is like a
symphony in which each painting has its part."
Clifford Still
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see
is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who
knows
what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things,
thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do
directly with painting itself. They can come from anything
and anywhere.
Philip Guston
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts
order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All
that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
Willem de Kooning
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder
germinating life.
Egon Schiele
There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living
so there's no end to it.
Henry Moore
Art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time
and space.
Marcel Duchamp
La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à
ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever.
(You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you
have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to
take away.)
Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does
not make you an artist.
James Rosenquist
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the
mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matterwas the person behind the mask.
Robert Motherwell
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce
settles on every tree.
William Blake
I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was
important for me to see whether I was working abstractly
because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was
doing it out of choice.
Robert Rauschenberg
Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible.
Paul Klee
Listen to the song of life.
Katherine Hepburn
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Always feel better than your "Art".
Lani Picard
I make movies for personal therapy in the same way
that a person in an institution is given baskets to
weave because the therapy is good for you.
Woody Allen
The main thing is to last!
Yves Saint Laurent
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such
a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin
An artist is a stimulator of thought.
Lani Picard
My Theory of Everything, Dr. Einstein: E =
e∞
Lani Picard
There is no reason to life without purpose.
Albert Einstein
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi 1876-1957
Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared
to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm
that motivates us to give our best.
Eknath Easwaran
Man separates himself from all other species, he uses his
sense of consciousness to claim righteousness and self
importance within the animal kingdom. He controls cages and
consumes any species of animal in anyway he sees fit. For
pleasure power ego and exploitation. To do so he avoids his
own consciousness by learning to lie to himself, he uses all
his creations to distance himself from responsibility for
the actions that his conscious deems wrong. Along the way he
creates right and wrong to justify his actions and control
the actions of other who might threaten him. He creates a
god in his own image to take ultimate responsibility for
those things he would rather not claim, religion is mans
ultimate scapegoat. Man creates angels and devils to guide
him in an attempt to keep his lying conscious from getting
him into too much trouble, and to blame for the actions he
himself can not excuse.. He seeks to control and secure his
life at every turn believing he deserves more with each new
day. He works and saves to achieve more and more control
over his life, he follows trends and ideas through popular
opinion, he uses the opinions of the masses to secure his
sense of righteousness. He then builds on these ideas to
further separate himself from nature and even the rest of
mankind.. All along caging himself, feeling more and more
alone, feeling more and more afraid and confused with the
world around him.. Fighting wars he does not understand.
Paying taxes to a system he knows only as empire.. Breaking
down all that is around him in terms of money class control
ownership laws morals rules and gods all created and
explained by his surroundings. When and if he stops to think
for himself he will realize he is responsible for his own
entrapment, and the animals he thinks he is above are free
making all decisions based on personal instinct. The only
true right or wrong. A personal decision made out of basic
survival.
Jesse Reno
Art is not so much talent as character.. it's what you are,
the qualities of the person.
John Olsen
Imagination is the key to creativity. Take all the
possibilities you've ever noticed and weave them together.
Anonymous
Poetry is not an expression of emotion, but an escape from
emotion.
T. S. Eliot
Silence is so accurate.
Mark Rothko
We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We
are for the large shape because it has the impact of the
unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are
for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal
truth.
Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb
I don't really trust ideas, especially good ones. Rather I
put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they
put me in touch with the unknown.
Robert Rauschenberg
An empty canvas is a living wonder...far lovelier than
certain pictures.
Wassily Kandinsky
Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
Panchatantra, fifth century A.D.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give
birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No canvas is blank.
Lani Picard
The depth of our internal view is equivalent to the vastness
of our external view. How far in all directions do you see?
Lani Picard
Through the minds of mediocrity, the artist is perceived
more as a coward then a creative.
Lani Picard
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life
without it.
Robert Motherwell
Ideas either come or they don't come.
Jasper Johns
Life is a perfect mess.
Lani Picard
All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the
collective unconsciousness.
Carl Gustav Jung
He can only obey the apparently alien impulse within him and
follow where it leads, sensing that his work is greater than
himself, and wields a power which is not his and which he
cannot command.
Carl Gustav Jung
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last
person on Earth to see the light- you'll never forget it.
Carl Edward Sagan
"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential
element of imagination."
Edward Hopper
"When we conger up a dream from within; our vessel of
creative innocence, all things are possible."
Lani Picard
"My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will
draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as
long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has
been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the
world. It lives through magic."
Keith Haring
"Your creativity is like a story; it needs a voice, a way to
be heard in the world. Creativity has moved into your hut.
Creativity is part of your future life. People think that
creativity is like stories, that it is outside of them, like
truth or power. But it inhabits you like your own life
force, and it animates your being. Creativity is within the
crystal palace of your mind. You are about to go on a long
journey. It is called your life. You will learn to heal the
evil forces of darkness. You are a warrior in the fight
against ignorance. The dark sorcerers in life are created
within each of us when we live a life of unexpressed
creativity, when we live someone else's truth and not our
own. Define your own creativity and live that creativity
in the world."
Lynn Andrews
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he
did he would cease to be an artist."
Oscar Wilde
"If you are unhappy, you can not be healthy. Advice: Start
Laughing!"
Lani Picard
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it."
Chinese Proverb
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give
birth to a dancing star."
Nietzsche
What I am looking for.. is an immobile movement, something
which would be the equivalent of what is called the
eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think
it was, described with the term "mute music".
Joan Miro
The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Pablo Picasso
"If we felt what we said...we could say less and mean more."
Unknown
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire
Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in
nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he
hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained
for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said
to himself, "I will make a thing."
a myth from Maiana, Gilbert Islands
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a
concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of
art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue
on the dusty floor of my cell.
Pablo Picasso
"I will always be kind to those I interact with and try to
make them smile. That will be the imprint I leave behind. I
don't need to conquer the world.........that is for the
greedy and malicious. Just being....... is sometimes
enough."
Christopher Ryan Moylen
"If you are afraid of losing something, then you are
dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free."
Sylvie Guillem
"Remember your wildness."
Lani Picard
"Imagination is the key to creativity. Take all the
possibilities you've ever noticed and weave them together."
Unknown
Now whatever I create, I create it about me, by me and for
me...period.
Lani Picard
"When you lose your eyesight, increase your insight."
John Henrik Clarke
"Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a
museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a
hardware store and fashion in an airport.”
Robert Wieder
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Albert Einstein
"The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy,
always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the
game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic
fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the
center of the meaning of existence."
Brett Whiteley
"Art makes me transparent, an internal excavation. Some days
it's Gold and some days it's mud. Either way, that's
who I am and it will always be a perfect thumb print of my
soul."
Kelly Moore
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility,
like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it
can give forth its spark."
Henri Frederic Amiel
"Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul."
Henri Matisse
"Most painting in the European tradition was painting the
mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was
the person behind the mask."
Robert Motherwell
"When I need a creative mentor, I excavate one from the
grave. They can't produce anymore mistakes."
Lani Picard
"A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the
influence of past generations is digging his own grave."
Henri Matisse
"Matisse, like all artists, has moments of confidence and
then moments of doubt. And that has a lot to do with
modernism. Mearleau-Ponty wrote this great essay called
“Cezanne's Doubt” that’s about how self-doubt is actually
one of the principal ingredients of modernism, because if
you feel comfortable with what you’re doing, then you do it
in a way which is rote and formulaic. And if you don’t feel
comfortable with what you're doing, if you’re your own worst
critic, and if you chose to pit yourself against other
artists who you perceive as being stronger, then your chance
of actually doing something original and important is much
better."
Rick Brettell
“I must break away from tradition, break away from beauty,
from sentimentality. This is my drama.”
Pablo Picasso
“The personality of the artist asserts itself through the
struggles it has to go through when pitted against other
personalities. If the fight is fatal, it is a matter of
destiny.”
Henri Matisse
"To participate in a painting is an experience similar to a
dream-state, a level of acceptance apart from everyday
reality."
Doug Higgins
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Paul Cezanne
"A good artist does not need anything."
Ad Reinhardt
"...The path shall flow yet the traveler be still."
Larry Bell
"...Because I say anybody who does creative art is a sacred
person."
Man Ray
"The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate
in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which
creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and
transmute the passions which are its material."
T. S. Eliot, Tradition and Individual Talent
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Oscar Wilde
"The most pathetic person in the world is the person who has
sight, but no vision."
Helen Keller
For me, Abstract Expressionism is the innocence of
expressing what I cannot see.
Lani Picard
"The mind and the heart...what an enigma!"
Charlie Chaplin
"Ask the experienced rather than the learned."
Arabic proverb
"Within everything is the seed of everything."
Unknown
"Courage is often mistaken for insanity."
Unknown
Create what you are for the future of another's now.
Lani Picard
Tune yourself in...the harmonics of thought compose the
music in the mind.
Lani Picard
Said of Aristotle; he lived, he thought; he died. What I say
of myself is: she was; she is; she was; she is again. What
will you say of you?
Lani Picard
"Only the pure of heart can make a good soup."
Ludwig van Beethoven
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
It's only after a sort of "get acquainted" period that I see
what I have been about. I have no fears about making
changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting
has a life of its own."
Jackson Pollock
"I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never
read anything, never heard anything....and then make
something."
Keith Haring
"Genius is illuminated by love."
Lani Picard
"Atoms are atoms. The only difference between you and me is
what I think and do."
Lani Picard
"Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our
monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into
pets."
Jacques Derrida
"To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles
with light..."
Emerson
"The sufferings of life, are the joys of art."
Twentieth Century, 1934 starring Carole Lombard and John
Barrymore
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant
intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the
average adult."
Sigmund Freud
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his
own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Expression is the impression of what is received from the
rhythm our inner strings."
Lani Picard
"Everyone should create a museum of their own, sit back and
relish in it."
Lani Picard
"The emotion in my work often comes from somewhere deep
down, and can speak to the inner part of each person. I've
found that a good painting is one you can internalize, one
in which a given element or the work as a whole means
something special to you - perhaps in ways you might not
admit to another person."
Gregory Deane, abstract artist
The better the art - the less there is to say about it.
Lani Picard
"There is nothing better than making art."
Lani Picard
"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for
when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller
and more of it can be taken in, at a glance and a lack of
harmony and proportion is more readily seen."
Leonardo DaVinci
"When you play music you discover a part of yourself that
you never knew existed"
Bill Evans, jazz pianist
"The way not to feel lonely and afraid is to think about
love all the time."
Agnes Martin, abstract expressionist
"I've always been an optimist. I call it above the line.
Beneath the line is all unhappiness and everything. I don't
paint about that, or about grief or anything like that. Only
the positive counts in this life---the good things that make
people happy."
Agnes Martin, abstract expressionist
Creativity is the initial desire/emotion/intent to search
for an original idea. Imagining is the actually searching
for it...the dreaming aspect. However the imagination,
itself, is the primal realm to go shopping for it...the Big
Free Cosmic Mall.
Lani Picard
Creativity is released most divinely when the mind is
cornered between shame and greatness of self.
Lani Picard
"The mind was born to work - to seek out 'every' thing
within the imagination and make it real."
Lani Picard
"If we study Japanese Art, we see a man who is undoubtedly
wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing
what? In studying the distance between the earth and moon?
No. In studying Bismark's policy? No. He studies a single
blade of grass."
Vincent Van Gogh
Words do not teach. A teacher is merely an agitator within
the infinite machinations of dormant thought.
Lani Picard
"Ever since the entertainment media began linking art with
itself...i.e., "Arts and Entertainment"...real art began a
quiet exodus out of the mass stream of consciousness."
Lani Picard
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.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.
Mark Twain
...self and enemy are not, perhaps, so different at the
core.
Sun Tzu
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all
science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as
dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
"No one can be a unique individual until one knows who they
are. Defining oneself should be a personal priority."
Lani Picard
"Be in love with your life every detail of it."
Jack Keroac
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
M.C. Escher
"the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer
can fall intoxicated on a glass of water"
Hakim Bey
"Charlie...remember what happened to the man who suddenly
got everything he ever wanted...He lived happily ever
after."
Willy Wonka - Willy
Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for
curiosity."
Ellen Parr
"Children's Formative Years --- those years when physical
man tramples the intuitiveness out of the child."
Abraham - Hicks
"I want to be like the sun which has no envy over whom it
shines."
Lani Picard
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which
searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of
which Nature herself is animated."
Auguste Rodin
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him
free."
Michelangelo
"One of the great lessons to be learned from Jackson
Pollock, or any other great artists work, is that the art of
painting is a higher form of language -- a literary vision
pulled from the great unknown."
ARTIST HARRY HILSON c-1997-2001
Great artists have an element of chance in their talent, and
there is also talent in their chance."
Victor Hugo - 1865
The look of love alarms
Because 'tis fill'd with fire;
But the look of soft deceit
Shall win the lover's hire.
William Blake
Art should be appetizing and delicious...creating the
feeling of insatiable hunger.
Lani Picard
Giving title to a piece of art is like branding a newborn
baby with a hot iron...it scars the skin forever.
Lani Picard
"The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps...so
that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl,
flash or thunder in."
Dylan Thomas
"Accidents – try to change them – it’s impossible. The
accidental reveals the man."
Pablo Picasso
"Painting makes me do what it wants."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is not chaste. It should be kept away from ignorant
innocents. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact
with art. Yes, art is dangerous. And if it is chaste, it is
not art."
Pablo Picasso
Listen to the voices on the wind. It might be Mattise or
Wilde or Einstein. The departed can teach you great things.
Lani Picard
"All my work is dependent on color and composition. I
believe the most complex emotions can be evoked from the
simplest of forms. My style explores the relationship
between man-made structures and the natural world; the idea
of recognizable shapes and structures living within
irrational thoughts and emotions."
Shawn McNulty
Art isn't timeless unless it simultaneously straddles both
ears; the sacred and the profane.
Lani Picard
I didn't travel two million light years to turn back now.
Lani Picard
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous
unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass
the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to
dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new
talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
Simone de Beauvoir
It's a great day when you read a quote, love what it says
and realize it was your own.
Lani Picard
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot
fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We should consider every day lost on which we have not
danced at least once.
And we should call every truth false which was not
accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had
as a child at play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You do not really understand something unless you can
explain it to your grandmother.
Albert Einstein
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say
in a whole book
Friedrich Nietzsche
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your
sources.
Albert Einstein
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and
thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893-92), Hungarian-born US biochemist.
"I do not want ART for a few any more than education for a
few, or freedom for a few."
William Morris
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
The big artist...keeps an eye on nature and steals her
tools.
Thomas Eakins
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James McNeill Whistler
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like
notes that shape music.
Joan Miro
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than
there are in history books.
Charlie Chaplin
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.
Roy Lichtenstein
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot,
but there are others who, thanks to their art and
intelligence,
transforms a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a
channel.
Piet Mondrian
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious.
Albert Einstein
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their
work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea
that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the
painter do good things.
Edgar Degas
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not
exist.
Rene Magritte
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all
human limits: logic and commonsense will only interfere. But
once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of
childhood visions and dreams."
Giorgio DeChirico
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an
artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Degas
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places
where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in
the universe when I'm in the process of working.
Louise Nevelson
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry
of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with
harmony of sound or of color.
James Mcneill Whistler
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one
day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college-
that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back
at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
Howard Ikemoto
It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like
everybody else.
Henri Matisse
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative
mind.
Louise Nevelson
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it
produces upon me.
Henri Matisse
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michaelangelo
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the
most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs
to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent
brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin
of marvels.
Francisco Goya
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of
the senses that sees what others do not see,
or sees them differently.
Eugène Delacroix
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
When I feel a little confused the only thing to do is to
turn back to the study of nature before launching once again
into the subjects closest to heart.
Raoul Dufy
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can
accomplish.
Michelangelo
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing
to hear and see it.
Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine
perfection.
Michelangelo
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which
searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of
which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
It is not the language of painters but the language of
nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the
things themselves, for reality, is more important than the
feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
In our time there are many artists who do something because
it is new; they see their value and their justification in
this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is
seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only;
making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
In the mind of an artist, a vacation is working without
interruption.
Lani Picard
Creating is a deliberate act of allowing the energy of
desire to flow through you.
Lani Picard
Art cannot be taught, art can only be sought.
Lani Picard
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our
souls.
Picasso
The infinite source of any manifestation must be invisible,
silent and neutral...anything else is an invention of
man...and deserves question.
Lani Picard
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is
dearness only that gives every thing its value.
Thomas Paine
Change and growth take place when a person has risked
himself and
dares to become involved with experimenting with his own
life.
Herbert Ott
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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The question is not of finding in your thoughts what is
right and what is wrong, in your actions what is right and
what is wrong. The question is of finding a consciousness so
total and so intense that only whatever is right remains,
and whatever is false burns out. You don't have to decide.
Osha
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there
is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one
turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted
idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental
ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our
troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs; we should test
them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
P.J O'Rouke
Awe is the harvest of a keen eye.
Lani Picard
Just walk. The road knows where you are going.
Arne Nyman
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Sir Issac Newton
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have
overcome all difficulties.
Chopin
Be where you are.
Unknown
Give Yourself Credit Even If You Don't Believe It's Due. Art
is subjective. No-one has to buy your art for it to be
valid, and it may take a while before people "get" what
you're doing. Pat yourself on the back along the way for
having the guts to get out there in the first instance. Give
yourself credit for creating. If you've actually done
something, anything, you're ahead of the game. Most people
think about it. Very few actually do it.
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There is so much more space inside than outside.
Lani Picard
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on
its own melting.
Robert Frost
Who are you?” said the caterpillar. This was not an
encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied rather
shyly, 'I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I
knew who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I
must have changed several times since then.
Lewis Carroll
Does not matter what matter you produce as in why. I rather
look at a sparkling toilet, then a Picasso. A clean and
solitary toilet shouts of reason...nothing nose-pinchingly
pretentious about it. It's common art - it works for
everyone.
Lani Picard
You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life
itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of
knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do
with giving."
Franz Kline
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All
else is science.
Bernard Berenson, 1897
"I think artist’s imagination is bound to simplicity and as
a rule is in conflict with common sense.
Kaloust Guedel
Everyone is an artist. Art advertises both the the soul and
the ego. That's all art does.
Lani Picard
"Consider yourself enlightened if you can envision life as a
drenched and dramatic choreography of rhythmic thought in
motion. Anything less, consider your self still
asleep."
Lani Picard
For those who love to make excuses:
If you can breathe you can live
If you can think you can do
If you can sleep you can dream
If you can sit you can play
If you can crawl you can move
If If you can move you can dance
If you can talk you can sing
If you can draw you can write
If you can write you can draw
If you can feel you can do anything
Just do something.
Lani Picard
Whenever a rude awakening occurs - it's an eclipse to
behold!
Lani Picard
People are crazy and times are strange...
Bob Dylan
Music is the language of movement.
Lani Picard
No one but a woman can teach the silence of herself.
Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
We are all part of a pattern we can not perceive - the
creative mind seeks to imagine this pattern and recreate it
in one form or another.
Lani Picard
Creativity is a powerful way to celebrate who we are. It is
a spiritual energy that nourishes our vitality. It is a way
to replace negative thinking with positive action. Everyone
of us is brimming with imagination, but it often takes
practice to find it and put it to use. Yet, anything we do
in a new way can be creative. Creative energy is within us
and all around us, whether we are writing a masterpiece or
folding the laundry. Every original act asserts our
commitment to living.
author unknown
There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.
William Blake
There is absolutely no pride where love lives...none.
Lani Picard
A note's a note in almost every language.
Satchmo: Louis Armstrong
My thoughts are my teachers.
author unknown
Someone once remarked that all 'unknown' authors are women.
Lani Picard
Life can stop you from what you want, but never stop you
from yearning.
unknown
If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up
where we are headed.
Ancient Chinese proverb
For every man, the world is as fresh as it was the first
day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the
eyes to see them.
Aldous Huxley
Travel into the deep and visit the tributaries of your
flowing and sacred mystery. Dive in, swim, swim, swim like a
seal and when you are done...rise up and gather the weeds
and wild flowers that quilt the sand along the blood-banks
of your own veins...your river of life.
Go there everyday, and dance upon the shores to the beat of
your heart rhythm...and dream your innocence...relish the
moment...
then make it real.
Lani Picard
Every great work of art is offensive to someone, for a work
of art is a protest against things as they are and a
proclamation of things as they ought to be.
Gerald W. Johnson
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the
rose.
Heda Bejar
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness
that created them.
Albert Einstein
A woman's intuition is a man's best friend.
unknown
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes
us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us
to understand.
Pablo Picasso
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George
Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The
Saturday Evening Post.
If there is an idea, then it must be probable;
virtual-reality happening somewhere.
Lani Picard
For when I can love all of me I will love all of you.
Debbie Ford
When 'push comes to shove', the only human being you can
count on to identify your personal integrity is yourself.
Lani Picard
We have to be mature and get used to the new chaos.
We have to be patient with that chaos.
There is no simple or clear solution for it.
One of the most important things is sympathy and respect.
In the war between our network and their network these can
go a long way.
Haruki Murakami, writer
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul
that intense light will not make it beautiful.
Emerson (1803-1882)
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Pascal (1623-1662)
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master
calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach, Illusions
I didn't travel over two million light years to turn around
now.
Lani Picard, Odyssey of Andromeda; Cosmic Crusader
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in
true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need
and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our
lives.
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a
steady purpose, a point on which the soul may fix its'
intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
Don't ever begin to believe that when you get to a certain
point, you're there.
Don't ever put a limit to what you want to be, because when
you get to that place, you're nowhere.
Don't ever set yourself a stopping place, because maybe that
is just the beginning.
John Held, Jr.
No one can be a unique creature until one knows who they
are. Defining oneself should be a personal priority.
Lani Picard
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself.
It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
Igor Stravinsky
Instincts...are highly conservative and of extreme antiquity
as regards both their dynamism and their form. Their forms,
when represented to the mind, appears as an image which
expresses the nature of the instinctive impulse visually and
concretely, like a picture....
Carl Jung
When you read philosophy, it will give you knowledge; when
you meditate, it will give you the experience.
Swami Muktananda
True art cannot be forced. Each of us is a work of art and
must be free to be revealed.
Lani Picard
More than science, art reveals the mystery of things.
William Shakespeare
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
We know that a woman in love is working on the lowest level
of the intellect.
Spellbound, the movie
...sorcery is a journey of return. We return victorious to
the spirit, having descended into hell. And from hell we
bring trophies. Understanding is one of our trophies.
Don Juan: Carlos Castaneda, The Power of Silence
"In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the
wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from
the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in
our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all
possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind
that orchestrates the dance of the universe."
Deepak Chopra, Seven Laws of Spirituality
Innocence emerges when the ego of arrogance disarms itself.
Lani Picard
Creativity takes form in one way or another the moment the
mind acts upon the emotions - like the wind upon the waters.
Lani Picard
Look well to your dreams, for they are the first step in the
creative process.
Charles Roth
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only
tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our
spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner
Let us reject tedious work. It goes against human nature,
against the cosmic rhythms, it goes against man himself, to
take trouble where none is needed. It is natural for him to
apply himself to avoiding such work; to use every instrument
that comes to hand, every favorable chance which can help
him out, to make his work easier and more pleasant. Tedious
work is inhuman and repugnant, every work which shows signs
of it is ugly. It is pleasure and ease, without harshness
and constraint, which create grace in every human gesture.
An excerpt from Jean Dubuffet's "Notes for the
Well-Lettered," Paris, 1967
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"On the floor I am more at ease, I feel nearer, more a part
of the painting, since this way I can walk around in it,
work from the four sides and be literally, 'in' the
painting."
Jackson Pollock, 1947
Art happens when all else fails.
Lani Picard
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret
is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be
taught by it.
Polly Berrien Berends
Everything you think eventually becomes realized. Everything
else is simply napping in the waiting-room of the mind.
Lani Picard
It is the soul's restlessness with the body that dances are
born. It is an expression of the soul's needs to seek flight
in an earthbound prison. In this body all the experiences of
life are recorded in the soul/body. We must go to the soul
level; the place between shadow and light, and the point
between inhalation and exhalation. Here we find a place of
release, and expression for the soul's discomfort.
Laurence Rawlins, Anima Dance Theatre, New York City
Art should always challenge our assumptions...or it not be
art.
Lani Picard
Many people have puzzled over the the secret of creativity.
I contend that it is basically no more than the extension
into adult life of these vital childlike qualities. The
child asks new questions; the adult answers old ones; the
childlike adult finds answers to new questions. The child is
inventive; the adult is productive; the childlike adult is
inventively productive. The child explores his environment;
the adult organizes it; the childlike adult organizes his
explorations and, by bringing order to them, strengthens
them. He creates."
Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo
"To understand the magical nature of the mind is to acquire
awesome power. It is to understand that at every moment of
our lives, we have the power to accomplish everything we
want."
Deepak Chopra
The world is made up of stories, not atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
"Art is not chaste. It should be kept away from ignorant
innocents. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact
with art. Yes, art is dangerous. And if it is chaste, it is
not art.
Pablo Picasso
"I've known both misery and happiness, lived in so many
different skins it is impossible for one skin to claim me.
And I have felt like a wayfarer on an alien planet at times
— walking, running, wondering about what brought me to this
particular place, and why. But once I was here the dreams
started moving in, and I went about devouring them as they
devoured me."
Gordon Parks, Photographer, Filmmaker, Poet, Writer, Painter
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit 1963
When the artist is alive in any person...he becomes an
inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He
becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets,
enlightens, and he opens ways for a better understanding.
Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense
of making anything possible.
Creativity is a celebration of my life.
It is a bold statement:
I am here!
I love life!
I love me!
I can be anything!
I can do anything!"
Joseph Zinker, therapist, painter, sculptor, and poet
People who want to be creative, who deeply value such a
characteristic in themselves, are more likely to make
themselves creative and keep themselves that
way...Creativity concerns what we do with our abilities. Any
normal person can be creative in terms of whatever abilities
he or she has or can acquire."
D.N. Perkins, The Mind's Best Work
Only that fine apparatus which is called the soul of the
artist can understand and feel the reflection of the
noumenon in the phenomenon. In art it is necessary to study
"occultism" - the hidden side of life. The artist must be a
clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see; he
must be a magician: must possess the power to make others
see that which they do not themselves see, but which he does
see.
P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the
World
Either you can play or you can't.
A Master Musician
Your one and only true and great work in this lifetime is to
paddle your own soul through the creative rivers and
tributaries of experience home to the peaceful pool of
infinity. When you arrive and awaken you will find that all
it took was a deep breath.
Lani Picard
The Zen of a heart-warrior is to balance the terror of being
human with the wonder of being human.
Lani Picard
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