“A Blue Woman Dreaming She Is Becoming Orange”
Wouldn’t it be great if they had emotional tanning salons, where you could be bathed in rays of happiness or seriousness or mercy?
What would you set your emotional tanning bed to?
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Should I make a little kids book out of these guys? LOL
Oppo and Sites attracted
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“Any Class is All Right If It Will Only Let Others Be So.” – Samuel Butler
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“Seriousness Is The Only Refuge of the Shallow.” – Oscar Wilde
When you come across one of those ‘I am so deep because I am so serious’ types, give him or her this quote and put them in their place! The person who can’t crack up about stuff is the person who is afraid to see deeply, not the other way around.
“The More Unpredictable The World Becomes The More We Rely On Predictions.” – Steve Rivkin
Take a look at the financial crisis we have now in America and you can see this rule at work.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.” – George Halas
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“There is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.” – Felix Frankfurter
Sometimes I put ideas out to my daughters not because I agreed with them but because I wanted them to be challenged to figure out what they believed. You can’t do that if you only give them what they are sure of. You have to give them ideas that make them stop and say ‘hey wait a minute, I don’t agree with that!’. This is one of those that, in some interpretations, can definitely bring that about.
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“Growing old is a bad habit that a busy person has no time to form.” – Andre Maurois
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“A Person Has Two Reasons For What They Do – A Good One, And The Real One.” – J. Pierpont Morgan
This is probably a bit too cynical for me, but it is close to the truth in many cases.
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“Intellect is Invisible To The Person Who Has None.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
The world of ideas is as invisible to the anti-intellectual as the world of love and compassion is to the narcissist.
Gandhi’s 7 Sins, Part 2
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This is a great list of REAL sins, 1-4
What do you think?
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“There is Always An Easy Solution To Every Human Problem – Neat, Plausible and Wrong.” – H. L. Mencken
All you have to do is listen to political speeches to know that this quote is not only true, but the fuel on which the political world runs.Luckily it does seem we have a system here in the USA that buffers this with it’s complexity and slowness to achieve anything.
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“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” Harry S. Truman
Only parents of kids that are pretty well grown up will understand this completely. You can suggest all sorts of things but as a child ages and becomes a young adult they have in their mind what it is they want to do. If you are not in tune to that, if they haven’t shared it, or you haven’t listened well, then you will be kicking against the brambles to suggest something else.
It is a fundamental discovery I made many years ago, that to be a practicing artist of any worth at all you have to admit to the world your obsessions and secrets. You have to know in advance and allow that you will have family, friends, strangers, critics, etc. who will not like them. But you have to do it anyway, it is your obligation as an artist. It is your job. Your job is to create what you really want to create. That is what the world is waiting for from you. They don’t want someone else’s art, someone else’s vision. They want YOUR art and YOUR vision.
You may think that people who do ‘pretty pictures’ escape this scrutiny, but that is not true. For every artist obsessed with sunsets and puppy dogs or other sweet things, there are people who diss them, who put them out of the art category and into the schlock crap category. And that artist has to know that and allow it and keep doing what they want to do. It is the only way for an artist to get close to their passion and if an artist doesn’t get close to his or her passion, they will not create art for very long.
“Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.” – Leo Tolstoy
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“Art, Like Morality, Consists Of Drawing The Line Somewhere.” G. K. Chesterton
The question in art, as in morality, is WHERE to draw that line. Artists of different eras and styles draw the line in different places, handling the pencil differently, drawing in different studios and lighting, heat and cold. Isn’t our morality similarly drawn? Could even the most conservative of people really live the moral code of the middle ages if they were plopped down in the middle of a peasant home?
