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28 Drawings of February, week 3

by Marty Coleman | Feb 21, 2026 | Series | 0 comments

Day 15

“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your bra at night.”

Drawn 2/10/2014

Day 16

“If you are happy you are fulfilling the purpose of existence.”

Drawn 2/11/2015

Day 17

“Only mediocrity is safe from ridicule.”

Drawn 2/25/2013

Day 18

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

Drawn 2/28/2013

Day 19

“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”

Drawn 2/16/2009

Day 20

“Humility doesn’t mean you think less of yourself; it means you think of yourself less.”

Drawn 2/29/2012

Day 21

“Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.”

Drawn 2/27/2012

28 Drawings of February, Week 2

by Marty Coleman | Feb 14, 2026 | Series | 0 comments

Day 8

“The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.”

Drawn 2/4/2016

Day 9

“I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.”

Drawn 2/4/2011

Day 10

“Respect is love in plain clothes.”

Drawn 2/5/2010

Day 11

“A negative mind will never lead to a positive life.”

Drawn 2/8/2016

Day 12

“The surest way to corrupt a young person is to teach them to esteem more highly those who think alike than those who think differently.” Nietzsche

If I taught my children one thing, I hope it is this.

Drawn 2/3/2003

Day 13

“The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”

Drawn 2/2/2012

Day 14

“Love is being stupid together.”

Happy Valentines Day!

28 Drawings of February, Week 1

by Marty Coleman | Feb 7, 2026 | Series | 0 comments

I am continuing to post on social media a napkin drawing every day. Here on my site I am posting them weekly. This month i’ve decided to include the commentary I wrote with the napkin on the date originally posted.

Day 1

“Spring, summer, fall fill us with hope; Winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

Drawn 2/1/2011

Day 2

“Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.”

Drawn 2/2/2010

Day 3

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can’t attain it in anything.”

Drawn on 2/3/2009

Day 4

“I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.”

Confucius

Drawn 2/4/2009

Day 5

“Effort and Courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

Drawn 2/5/2015

Day 6

“here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete: If you are alive, it isn’t.”

Drawn on 2/2/2015

Day 7

“Those who want to imitate anything produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali

Drawn 2/7/2009

31 Drawings of January, week 5

by Marty Coleman | Feb 1, 2026 | January, January Napkins | 0 comments

Day 25

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” – Horace Mann

Drawn 1/10/2001

Day 26

“There is no greater joy for a fool than to find a greater fool.”

Drawn 1/15/2013

Day 27

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Drawn 1/17/2013

Day 28

“A fool flatters herself, a wise woman flatters the fool.”

Drawn 1/16/2013

Day 29

“The universe is uncanny at serving up what we need most in the guise of what we fear most.”

Drawn on 1/8/2014

Day 30

“Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold, chisel and complete a character.”

Drawn on 1/29/2013

Day 31

“She jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

Drawn on 1/24/2013

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31 Drawings of January, week 4

by Marty Coleman | Jan 24, 2026 | January, January Napkins | 0 comments

Day 18

“If you can dream it, you can launch it.”

Drawn on a napkin 1/23/2014

Day 19

“We may have all come on different ships but we are all in the same boat now.” – MLK, Jr.

Drawn on a napkin, 1/19/2015

Day 20

“Choose discomfort over regret.”

Drawn 1/27/2011

Day 21

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

Drawn 1/3/2018

Day 22

“Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.”

Drawn 1/4/2011

Day 23

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

Drawn 1/3/2011

Day 24

“If triangles had a god she would have 3 sides.”

Drawn on 1/21/2014

31 Drawings of January, Week 3

by Marty Coleman | Jan 17, 2026 | January, January Napkins | 0 comments

Day 11

“If you don’t know history then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”

Drawn 1/30/2014

Day 12

“Loving your body only when it’s in perfect shape is like loving your kids only when they’re well-behaved.”

Drawn 1/28/2016

Day 13

“It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you in hot water.”

drawn 1/31/2012

Day 14

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”

Drawn 1/31/2010

Day 15

“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow saying, ‘his color is not mine’ or ‘his beliefs are strange’, in that moment he betrays America.” – LBJ

Drawn 1/21/2013