Quotes on Artful Living

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. Robert Henri, art educator and painter Be brave enough to live life creatively The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk, and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you discover will be yourself. Alan Alda It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca Everywhere at every time in the world, the artist has had to be a strong person in order to retain his own individuality. Sergei Shutov, painter I like to think of myself as an artist, and my life is my greatest work of art...every moment is a moment of creation, and each moment of creation contains infinite possibilities...I can do things the way I've always done them, or I can look at all the different alternatives, and try something new and different and potentially more rewarding...what a wonderful game we are all playing! Shakti Gawain

The young artist of today need no longer say "I am a painter," or "a poet," or "a dancer." He is simply an "artist." All of life will be open to him. Allan Kaprow Paint as you like and die happy. Henry Miller The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it. Stephen Nachmanovitch, from the book Free Play (The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts) To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but you create "through" your technique and not "with" it. Stephen Nachmanovitch, from the book Free Play... Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them. Henry Miller Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourishes you. SARK The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance. Ruth St. Denis

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