Self-reliance is the Fine Road to Independence.
Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.
Curiosity is the compass that guides us to new discoveries.
If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time–like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American modernist painter whose career spanned seven decades. She was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.
The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was an American artist and illustrator. His works were published in magazines, advertisements, covers, calendars, and so much more. He accurately displayed the essence of American life.
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it’s time for artists to make this work.
I see music as fluid architecture.
Joni Mitchell (born 1943) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and painter.
Music is a universal art; anybody’s music belongs to everybody; you can’t limit it to race or country.
The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was actively involved in the leadership of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). He wrote lyrics for the hymn, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which later became known as the national anthem for African-Americans.
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